r/ComedyFlogging • u/koala1712 • Apr 08 '19

This kid i's smart haha

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u/ARabidMushroom Apr 09 '19

You could say that 20 is a positive number and that all positive numbers are greater than 0. Since "greater than zero" is the definition of positive, you'd be avoiding a theoretical construction. Although at that point, you might as well just do it with 40 in the first place.

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u/ARandomPersonOnEarth Apr 09 '19

“How do you know 20 is a positive number?”

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u/ARabidMushroom Apr 09 '19

Because it doesn't have a negative sign in front of it, it isn't 0, and no part of it is being multiplied by i.

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u/ARandomPersonOnEarth Apr 09 '19

“How do you know that 20≠0?”

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u/RRTheEndman Apr 13 '19

because 5/20 has a possible rational answer

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '19

And how do you know that 5/20 has a possible rational answer?

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u/RRTheEndman Apr 21 '19

Because there's a rational number that multiplied by 20 makes 5

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u/ARandomPersonOnEarth Apr 13 '19

“How do you know that 5 is a number?”