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Natural Numbers and Arithmetic: Intuition

Posted on October 7, 2020 Written by The Cthaeh Leave a Comment

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Welcome to the third post from my series on numbers and arithmetic. In the previous two posts, I gave an overview of real numbers (and their main subsets), as well as the main operations between them. And in the rest of the series, we’re going to build all these concepts from scratch. Well, the focus in today’s post is the most basic subset of the real numbers: the natural numbers.

This post is part of my series Numbers, Arithmetic, and the Physical World.

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Filed Under: General Mathematical Concepts Tagged With: Arithmetic, Number

Arithmetic Properties: A Comprehensive Breakdown

Posted on July 13, 2020 Written by The Cthaeh Leave a Comment

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Welcome to the second post from my series on numbers and arithmetic. As a sort of continuation to the introductory post, here I want to talk about the most important properties of arithmetic operations.

This post is part of my series Numbers, Arithmetic, and the Physical World.

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Filed Under: General Mathematical Concepts Tagged With: Arithmetic, Number

Numbers, Arithmetic, and the Physical World (Series)

Posted on July 6, 2020 Written by The Cthaeh Leave a Comment

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Hi, everyone! Today’s post is the introduction to a new mini-series on numbers and arithmetic.

In this series, I’m going to take you back to some elementary math concepts from your childhood. I want you to get a good intuition about fundamental mathematical objects which we use in pretty much everything else we do in math. Namely, the objects called numbers.

Besides numbers themselves, I want to focus on the intuition behind the most common operations with numbers: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, roots, and logarithms. The field concerned with these operations is called arithmetic and is one of the fundamental fields in mathematics.

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Filed Under: General Mathematical Concepts Tagged With: Arithmetic, Number

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