I never tried to imply there is a negative zero, and re-arranging an equation is certainly allowed in the solution of equations!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Collins Areba <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:arebacollins@gmail.com">arebacollins@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">DUDE, there is nothing like negative zero! does not exist. my only word of advise though, when you have to rearrange the equation to justify an arguement, you are doing what we reffered to as MalReasoning. Deiberately refusing to reason..&nbsp;<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Martin G. Kamau <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gachunga@gmail.com" target="_blank">gachunga@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

@Collins I can see where you are coming from but 0 is a negative number (in this case), thus we re-arrange the numbers to have 1+1+(-0) = 2.<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Collins Areba <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:arebacollins@gmail.com" target="_blank">arebacollins@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">cant believe a BODMAS question can elicit this much response.&nbsp;<div>@Martin you are wrong, true in BODMAS you add before you subtract. so add 0 and 1 first, thats 1, then 1-1 thats zero.&nbsp;</div>


<div><br></div><div>how did you do your addition kwani?<div><div></div><div><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Martin G. Kamau <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gachunga@gmail.com" target="_blank">gachunga@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">



I may be wrong, but according to BODMAS, addition is done before subtraction, therefore 1-0+1 = 2. The mistake folks are making is introducing brackets where there were none, thus the classic creating your own questions :)<br>




<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Erick Njenga <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:eriknjenga@gmail.com" target="_blank">eriknjenga@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtraction" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtraction</a><div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">






<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">

The traditional names for the parts of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula" title="Formula" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">formula</a></p>

<dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>c</i>&nbsp;&minus;&nbsp;<i>b</i>&nbsp;=&nbsp;<i>a</i></dd></dl><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">




are&nbsp;<i>minuend</i>&nbsp;(<i>c</i>)&nbsp;&minus;&nbsp;<i>subtrahend</i>&nbsp;(<i>b</i>) =&nbsp;<i>difference</i>&nbsp;(<i>a</i>). The words &quot;minuend&quot; and &quot;subtrahend&quot; are uncommon in modern usage.<sup style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtraction#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup>&nbsp;Instead we say that&nbsp;<i><b>c</b></i><b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<i>&minus;b</i>&nbsp;are terms, and treat subtraction as addition of the&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_inverse" title="Additive inverse" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">additive inverse</a>.</b> The answer is still called the&nbsp;<i>difference</i>.</p>






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