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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You can have only the set of natural numbers, in which case you have the positive x direction, but not the negative. And why is -x the opposite of x? Why isn't 1/x its opposite? Or -1/x?

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you looked to much at the math. -x is the opposite of +x becuase they oppose each other.

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*sneaks up behind katchoo with the 5000th post day mallot...*
*WHAM!*

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I looked to much at the math? Umm... looking at the math is the only possible way to compare numbers and variables of numbers...

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Math the only way to look at numbers and number comparisons, etc? It surely isn't. One can use logic systems, which while related to math are most assuredly not math.

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Logical evaluation of number systems is a type of math, actually. It is called Discrete Mathematics.

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Discrete Mathematics is a method of combining logical method and problem solving with mathematical equations. It is not all inclusive of Logical comparisons of numbers and other areas.

Even if it where I could still show that your original statement:
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">is false by simply making up a nonsensical way of comparing numbers and variables. It would make no sense and have no meaning but it would still be a way it could be done.

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My statement was not a logical proof. It was not all-inclusive. I did not bother ruling out nonsense methods that do not give any useable results because there was never a reason to do so, and there still is not. So, the method of disproving it by finding one possible way in which it does not hold is not applicable.

[ April 17, 2003, 00:48: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

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The opposite of Zero is Absolute Zero!

How's that for nonsense reduced to perfection?

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i wasn't speaking of the math, i was speaking of the actual movement.