{"id":12788,"date":"2012-11-29T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12788"},"modified":"2012-11-29T03:00:25","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T08:00:25","slug":"new-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12788","title":{"rendered":"New Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the three you then use one<br \/>\nTo make ten ones&#8230;<br \/>\n(And you know why four plus minus one<br \/>\nPlus ten is fourteen minus one?<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause addition is commutative, right.)<br \/>\nAnd so you have thirteen tens,<br \/>\nAnd you take away seven,<br \/>\nAnd that leaves five&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, six actually.<br \/>\nBut the idea is the important thing. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tom Lehrer, &#8220;New Math&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2012\/11\/27\/lets-get-rid-of-zero\/\">Let&#8217;s Get Rid of Zero!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What can we take from this introduction? Well, our author can&#8217;t be bothered to define basic arithmetic properly. What he really wants to say is, roughly, Peano arithmetic, with 0 removed. But my guess is that he has no idea what Peano arithmetic actually is, so he handwaves. The real question is, why did he bother to include this at all?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My own experience is primarily with physics crackpots and creationists, but there are obviously math cranks out there, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the three you then use one To make ten ones&#8230; (And you know why four plus minus one Plus ten is fourteen minus one? &#8216;Cause addition is commutative, right.) And so you have thirteen tens, And you take away &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12788\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiscience","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}