As someone who thinks that numbers have a reality, 2 and 4 would both be metaphors for the actual numbers. (or is that too spacy?)
On 10/22/06, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Are 1/2 and 2/4 identical or are their ratios identical ? The relationship of 1 to 2 is the same as the relationship of 2 to 4. Anyway, metaphors have to do with the sameness of relationships, not the sameness of things. Arithmetic deals with sameness of things. Algebra deals with sameness of relationships between things. Actually, 1/2 = 2/4 is arithmetic. ( my bad) a/b = c/d is algebra. Charles
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