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On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:05:56 -0400, nemesis wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:04:42 +0200, andrel wrote:
>>
>> >> You're making a mental calculation there - you're dividing by 10.
>> >> It's easy, but that doesn't mean there's no calculation at all.
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Oh come on, you are not dividing, just shifting the decimal point.
>>
>> Which by definition, mathematically, is division (or multiplication if
>> it's the other direction).
>
> still, it doesn't demand any calculation at all to correlate 1.80 meters
> to 1 meter and 80 cm or to 180 cm. They are all equivalent, even in
> digits...
But not in decimal points. It's still division/multiplication by 10, no
matter how you describe how it looks.
Jim
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