Tribe.net. Local Connections *Mugsie* http://falseprofit.tribe.net/thread/da35c089-b23f-4c60-b75f-0ece54399351#53aaeb29-4ebb-44cb-b60b-3aa59a725c28 2007-09-28T17:08:52Z 2007-09-28T17:08:52Z

that was so fun - most excellent opportunity to contemplate the New Math while grooooovin out.

*Mugsie* 2007-09-28T17:08:52Z benchun http://falseprofit.tribe.net/thread/da35c089-b23f-4c60-b75f-0ece54399351#a36b97ae-6507-4869-b11d-16bd69c00872 2007-09-26T07:00:18Z 2007-09-26T07:00:18Z

I had a student say to me once, "IMAGINARY? You can't just make up numbers!!" Which I loved, because then I got to say, "Aren't they all made up?"

benchun 2007-09-26T07:00:18Z stephanie http://falseprofit.tribe.net/thread/da35c089-b23f-4c60-b75f-0ece54399351#3296a184-e53a-4170-9945-00afb0b9bcfe 2007-09-26T05:33:00Z 2007-09-26T05:33:00Z

mmm, talk about New Math... this I can get excited about!

stephanie 2007-09-26T05:33:00Z bex http://falseprofit.tribe.net/thread/da35c089-b23f-4c60-b75f-0ece54399351#89e394f5-c598-4ee1-958f-61066c7308a9 2007-09-26T00:57:31Z 2007-09-26T00:57:31Z

Dividend = (move it + groove it)^(shake it)

bex 2007-09-26T00:57:31Z .lady. http://falseprofit.tribe.net/thread/da35c089-b23f-4c60-b75f-0ece54399351#3e880cdc-12f5-4f63-9c9a-1a95084167f6 2007-09-25T23:29:33Z 2007-09-25T23:29:33Z

i only understand imaginary numbers. i do not, however, understand unimaginary humans. given that this is my last week of being 30, i shall also provide proof that the greater number of Dividends that occur in a human life, the greater value that life has. but, we all know that.

.lady. 2007-09-25T23:29:33Z brendan http://falseprofit.tribe.net/thread/da35c089-b23f-4c60-b75f-0ece54399351#95ed276b-eafe-4166-a9d4-77c7f9be67ad 2007-09-25T22:50:31Z 2007-09-25T22:50:31Z

hint: the above proof is simplified greatly if you let profits=false (which of course, is real, irrational, and has a nonzero imaginary component)

brendan 2007-09-25T22:50:31Z brendan http://falseprofit.tribe.net/thread/da35c089-b23f-4c60-b75f-0ece54399351#676b8a9e-4087-422d-9f27-d8265e4aaca3 2007-09-25T22:46:15Z 2007-09-25T22:46:15Z

<<<so i'm not sure i'll be up for in-depth analytical explorations of mathematical conceptualizations or reimagingings of commonly-held numerical belief structures.>>> it's quite simple, really: given a ring (R,*,+) and elements n and p in R, we can say that "n divides p" if there exist some m in R such that p=n*m. now, let n be a natural number representing the quantity of humans splitting some quantity of profits, which we denote "p" (let's assume that p>0, cuz business is good). of course, in the familiar setting of the real numbers, if we have n>n', p=n*m, and p=n'*m' then clearly m<m'. but note that this only holds in an ordered field, such as the reals; it does not hold for unordered sets, such as the complex numbers. now, it is a simple matter to show that dividend is a linear map from the reals to the complex plane. the proof is left to the reader as an exercise. please bring your solutions by during my office hours: 10p-2a this thursday night, poleng lounge. late responses earn no credit.

brendan 2007-09-25T22:46:15Z $item.owner.firstName http://falseprofit.tribe.net/thread/da35c089-b23f-4c60-b75f-0ece54399351#5460414a-307a-47fa-99b5-69eb6d32af97 2007-09-25T20:45:22Z 2007-09-25T20:45:22Z

if you ask me, those False Profit people are prime-time whack jobs. my teachers never lied to me. but i'm still going...cuz even if those nutters hate division they still know how to add. RD+Boreta

$item.owner.firstName 2007-09-25T20:45:22Z orange http://falseprofit.tribe.net/thread/da35c089-b23f-4c60-b75f-0ece54399351#f610f482-943a-4982-bece-ba3542ca2463 2007-09-25T19:31:34Z 2007-09-25T19:31:34Z

well, RD sometimes makes my brain explode. so i'm not sure i'll be up for in-depth analytical explorations of mathematical conceptualizations or reimagingings of commonly-held numerical belief structures. but i can say with certainty that i'll dance my ass off. and possibly be down to exchange some very simple sentences.

orange 2007-09-25T19:31:34Z JD http://falseprofit.tribe.net/thread/da35c089-b23f-4c60-b75f-0ece54399351#3eb9ad1f-5964-493e-9830-d95f02bbcf53 2007-09-25T19:05:11Z 2007-09-25T19:05:11Z

Well, my cells have been dividing over and over for, like... well a while now, and there do seem to be more of them than ever before. Except for those few days in early January 2004 after a brutal holiday season... Still, the concept makes perfect sense to me! Very tempted to risk it all and go crazy with the "new math" whizes at Dividend this Thurs!!! *^_^*

JD 2007-09-25T19:05:11Z dr. trix http://falseprofit.tribe.net/thread/da35c089-b23f-4c60-b75f-0ece54399351#2a8be6ce-2427-4e15-bd98-84233d90a122 2007-09-25T18:28:26Z 2007-09-25T18:28:26Z

DIVIDEND Boreta/RD (Glitch Mob) Mr. Rogers (Ooze System/Full Melt) Genji (Word of Mouth) Poleng Lounge 1751 Fulton Ave @ Masonic 10-2a / $5 San Francisco – Mathematicians from the Equations Program of False Profit, LLC recently announced plans to disprove a widely-accepted arithmetical operation: Division. “We’ve been seduced by the simple allure of division,” said Bex Hurwitz, a senior Computational Adjuster, at False Profit, LLC. “We were taught long division in grade school as though it were fact. We were—to put it mildly—led astray.” The theory of division states that a number gets smaller the more it is divided. In economics, a ‘dividend’ is the amount of an asset each shareholder receives. According to the theory of division, the dividend a shareholder receives should get smaller as the number of shareholders increases. False Profit, LLC intends to prove otherwise. They invite all shareholders to the Poleng Lounge this Thursday, where the Dividend will actually increase as the number of shareholders increases.

dr. trix 2007-09-25T18:28:26Z