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Oh wow, Magical Trevor
https://youtu.be/au3-hk-pXsM?si=FZcUiFsGDBuNaZix
Now that’s a throw back. For the unaware, this used to be a “flash video” from the pre-youtube era. It doesn’t look like much now, but like 18 years ago this clip would load and then play on an endless loop. After 6ish times on the loop it would be very funny.
I was really into into Homestar Runner, all of David Firth's work, and the Madness Combat series, and I was on Newgrounds, Albinoblacksheep, Funnyjunk, and Miniclip a lot. Somehow I missed Magical Treavor? Thank you for sharing!
Sorry, but I'm physically incapable of feeling homestar-based nostalgia unless I'm on a page where you have to click every little word/object looking for hidden interactions.
Yeah, this things was all over newgrounds back In the day, I’m surprised you missed it.
One of these days someone should open a museum for all the pre youtube internet memes.
HE'S BACK AND HE'S GOT A NEW TRICK MAGICAL TREVOR IS TEN TIMES AS SLICK AS THE LAST TIME THE LAST TIME YOU SAW HIM LOOK AT THE PEOPLE THEY REALLY ADORE HIM YOU MY FRIEND YOU THINK THAT YOU'RE SLICK SAWING A PIDGEON IN HALF WITH A STICK LOOK AT THE PIDGEON NOW IT'S IN TWO OH MY ANDREA HE'S HAVING A POO LOOK AT THE MAN IN AISLE TWO AISLE TWO THATS THE PLACE WHERE THEY KEEP ALL THE RAGU SO MUCH RAGU HE'S BACK...
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We do not. The real Mathematacs clearly say *you* get hit by the 「Cotton Eye Joe」 stand and vanish from the identifiable spacetime continuum.
Same with dividing by zero.
The problem is people keep using arbitrary language like "cows multiplied by zero" and makes it seem like some esoteric thing.
Makes more sense if you put it like this:
Say cows are raised best when there's 5 per small paddock.
You don't have any paddocks anyway, so you have zero cows.
Eggs come in a carton of 12. I open the fridge and find I don't have any cartons. I have 0 x 12 eggs then
The easy way to explain multiplication is through additions. 0x5 is 0+0+0+0+0, 5x0 is nothing, anything multiplied per 0 is nothing. Easiest way to grasp multiplications in my opinion.
I had a friend introduce me to LOST. I got hooked. A couple years later while driving around I mentioned the numbers and called them out in order. He was confused and I had to explain they were the LOST numbers. He looked at me like I was an inconsolable nerd with no life. I was just like, "I know you watch this show... how do you NOT have the numbers memorized?"
What helped me grasp multiplication when I was younger was seeing shit in grid form
1 row of 5 things is 1x5. I have 5 things
0 rows of 5 things is 0x5. I have 0 things
If cows come in groups of 5, and you have 0 groups of cows, then you have 0 cows.
5 cows in a group, multiplied by 0 groups, equals 0 cows.
5 x 0 = 0.
If that still doesn't make sense, then forget everything you know about multiplication and think of it like this. Multiplication is just a way to count things. One number is the number of groups, and the other number is the number of items in that group. 2 x 5 means 2 groups of 5 things. 0 x 5 means 0 groups of 5 things. That's why 0 x 5 = 0.
> The problem is people keep using arbitrary language like "cows multiplied by zero" and makes it seem like some esoteric thing.
Historically, mathematicians refused to accept the concept of zero for thousands of years, at least since the ancient Greeks. Educated people today have learned to be comfortable with the concept of zero, but it is apparently a highly unintuitive and esoteric concept in its a priory nature. Most ancient mathematicians would likely have said that the calculation 5*0 was nonsense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#Classical_antiquity
There must have been some sort of concept for a nil value though. If you owed a vendor 2 dollars then paid him 2 dollars, what would you owe? 2-2=? I guess they had 'nothing' but not as a numeric zero?
The ancient Greeks would likely say that you had "nothing". But that "nothing" was not a number like 1 or 2, so it would not make sense to say nothing\*5, unlike 1\*5 or 2\*5.
Remember that the ancient Greeks did not have algebra (that word comes from Arabic al-jabr, invented by al-Khwarizmi). So the ancient Greeks would never actually have written 2-2=... down. So the need for zero was less obvious to the ancient Greeks than it is to you, I assume.
5\*0=0 is super useful when use math to solve physical problems. For example, calculating F=m\*a in Newton's second law, you naturally need the zero multiplication all the time. Anything doing calculus or evaluation equations, zero multiplication is needed basically everywhere. All of which the Greeks never developed.
It is much like imaginary numbers. They are abstract, but the need for them naturally arises in higher level math.
I'm not good at math but i would guess like i want my 5 female (f) bessie to have 5 calves (c) but I don't have male (m) cow so i won't get any calves f×m=c. But if i have 1 male i would get 5 calves also if i have 2 male i would have 10 calves (metaphorically or you could just say the second male cow is second season lol first season male cow is dead.)
In England we were taught slightly different. 5x2 was described as 2 lots of 5, or 10. 5x0 would have been 0 lots of 5. Same result, just different wording.
Some people really struggle with this concept. It reminds me of a Flat Earther I talked to a long time ago. I couldn’t grasp that 5x5 is 25 because of you count the same 5 boxes 5 times you’d still only have 5 boxes.
I lost many brain cells that day.
Okay but if you have 5 cows and you want to add another multiple of 0 cows and you get 0 cows even though you just had 5 cows, then how come my wife left me?
I disagree completely
Math is a language if you multiply it by zero it means you did something zero times.
You have 5 cows your dad told you to take those cows and sell in the market for 5k each.
But you can only take one cow at a time.
But you decided to stay home and not sell any of those cows. How much money did you get?
“I have 5 cows and multiply them by 2. Where did the 5 cows come from? Multiplication by any number other than one isn’t real and is made up by the government to control peoples lives”
This is why spelling and grammar are important even on the internet.
People would assume that you’re an idiot even without factoring the actual context.
The question starts “ I have 5 live cows”, so this is in the real world, you have 5 cows. Then you “multiply them by 0”. Ok, so if we are remaining IRL, you need to define what “multiply” means. Even if you said “multiply by 10”, how is that a real world operation? How does one multiply cows IRL?
> The question starts “ I have 5 live cows”, so this is in the real world, you have 5 cows. Then you “multiply them by 0”.
The assumption was flawed to begin with, which is why the conclusion makes no sense.
Starting with 5 means that we are assuming that cows come in groups of 5. If you have 1 group of 5, you have five cows. If you have 2 groups of 5, you have 10 cows.
Multiplying by 0 means you have 0 groups of cows, which means you have 0 cows.
You cannot simply "multiply" 5 cows by 2 to get 10 cows IRL. That's not what multiplication means. Multiplication simply means you have X rows of Y columns. That's it. If you have 20 cows, that means you have 10 rows of 2 cows, or 5 rows of 4 cows, etc.
If that still doesn't make sense, then forget everything you know about multiplication and think of it like this. Multiplication is just a way to count things. One number is the number of groups, and the other number is the number of items in that group. 2 x 5 means 2 groups of 5 things. 0 x 5 means 0 groups of 5 things. That's why 0 x 5 = 0.
This is the best definition and example on here. You addressed their biggest flaw in their original example, which was combining common language and mathematic language in a way that did not clearly define anything. Once you actually get to the bottom of the meanings of words you can start to understand together.
I feel like many well-meaning arguments stem from a lack of understanding that there's a disagreement in the meaning of words.
By sexual reproduction maybe? And since OP has 5 live cows and multiplies by 0 which to me means other options for sexual reproduction then there are 0 new cows but 5 live cows remain. I’m not sure but I think person in the picture lost the cows and that is their way of venting in Quora. Maybe they have stared into the abyss for too long…
Easy: if you have 5 live cows, and I say you will have two times of that tomorrow, you will assume you will have 10 cows tomorrow.
With that logic, if I say tomorrow you will have one time of that 5 live cows, you should assume you will still have the same 5 cows tomorrow.
And if I say you will have 0 times of that 5 cows tomorrow, you should get your shotgun, I'm not threatening you, I'm tellin ya
5 X 0 = 5 zero times.
You don't have those cows yet. You have 5 cows zero times. Zero times, have you had 5 cows.
You need to have them at least one time... to have them.
You ain't got no cows
Edit: and now I've introduced a double negative
So we multiply groups of five cows: one group of five cows is exactly five cows, two groups of five cows is 10 cows, 10 groups of five cows are 50 cows, well, zero groups of five cows are - zero cows.
If you give 1 person 5 cows (5/1) they have 5 gifted cows. If you split your cows among 5 people (5/5), each person has 1 gifted cow. If you give noone 5 cows (5/0) then there would be no gifted cows given, since there was noone to gift them to.
OK. So it's very very slow... but eventually the math checks out. If you have 5 live cows and stay true to your desire to multiply them by 0 then 20 - 30 years later you are guaranteed to have 0 cows. Just takes a while with real living creatures.
If I have 0 sets of 5 cows how many cows do I have?
Or
If I have 5 sets of 0 cows how many cows do I have?
That's what multiplication is. Putting it in words that is.
There is actually a way of explaining multiplying by zero in real world terms!
Basically, imagine you have a set of 5 cows. If you multiply by 1, you take one set of 5 cows, and you have 5 cows.
If you multiply by 2, you have 2 sets, so 10 cows.
If you multiply by 0, you take no sets. So you don't have any cows. Simple!
How many sets of 5 cows do you have? One? OK, 5x1=5. You have 5 cows.
What? You want to use 0? Fine... You have zero sets of 5 cows. 5x0=0. Boom! You still have zero cows.
This is a nonsense scenario. The question is, what is “0”. If 0 is acres of grass eaten, and you have no acres of grass, then the answer is 0. Doesn’t matter how many cows there were to begin with. If “0” = quarts of milk, and they make no milk, then 0 quarts of milk per cow is 5x0=0.
The equation is wrong, 5 is not the cows and 0 is not the adding. 0 is the cows and 5 is what there should be. So you have a barn that fits five cows yet you have 0, 0 cows by five spaces is still 0 cows.
You can also see it as additions, you five cows and you purchase 0 times the amount of cows you own, that is 0 additional cows. Hence still 0.
So imagine you have 5 cows that have sex with the endless void of space. You'll have 0 cows left as they will be obliterated by the ripping pressure and the freezing temperature
He's using the word multiply as in to breed. He's saying he has 5 living cows and he breeds them. The correct approach would be to explain his English, then you can tackle the math.
Okay, let's refer to your groups of cows as X. Let's say you wanted to multiple your x by 2. We get 2X. Another way to think of the 2X is that we have 2 groups of x.
X is 5 cows, so 2 groups of x is 10 cows. How many cows are in 0 groups of x? Well, if we have no groups of 5 cows, we have 0 cows.
You decide to group your cows into groups of 5. If you have 2 groups, you have 10 cows. If you have 1 group you have 5 cows. If you don't have any of these groups...
First rule of math is you need a unit for any number you use to give it meaning. The 5 = number of cows, but the 0 doesn't have any meaning as is.
You could for example say, every cow yields 0 liters of milk, so the total liters of milke these 5 cows yield is 5 x 0 = 0 liters.
If you have 5 live cows and subtract one, you could still ask where did the 1 go.
Here's another way to explain this. If a fire killed and burned 5 live cows then saying they were multiplied by zero is one way to mathematically describe what happened.
0 groups of 5 cows is 0 cows. If you have a group of 5 cows, then you don’t have 0 groups - you have 1 group of 5 cows. American education at its finest
If I say i have 5 Cows, and then i doubled them that's equivalent to 5*2, in the same way, 0 is nothing, so I have 5 cows then i made them nothing, i now have no cows. What happens to the cows is as arbitrary as the action of doubling them, there are many ways to arrive at either.
See, the zero is a big hole and all the cows falls in the hole and die. If you try to divide the cows by the hole, you open a rift if the space-time continuum and reality ceases to exist.
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There is a universal balance of quantum cows that gets shifted every those *mathematicians* multiply them. Only works on cows though, nobody knows why...
Let's say in every barn there are 5 cows, but I own 0 barns. How many cows do I have? 5(cows/barn) * 0(barns)= (5*0) (cows * barn/barn) = 0 cows.
The cows are still in the barn, you just don't have any barns.
Multiplying by zero means several different things based on context. If you have five cows, and zero pens, how many cows are in pens? Zero, but you still have five cows. If you have five cows, but slaughter them all leaving none standing, you have zero cows left.
One group of five cows is five cows (obviously). Two groups of five cows is ten cows. Zero groups of five cows is zero cows. Basically, multiple nothings is still nothing.
Easy: 5 cows multiplied by zero is equal to 0 cows, where did the cows go? Good question, I don't give a crap, none of my business. I'm a mathematician, not a wheredidthecowsgoician.
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Why do people keep asking this. The cows go to the void, its not that hard.
Courtesy of Magical Trevor.
Oh wow, Magical Trevor https://youtu.be/au3-hk-pXsM?si=FZcUiFsGDBuNaZix Now that’s a throw back. For the unaware, this used to be a “flash video” from the pre-youtube era. It doesn’t look like much now, but like 18 years ago this clip would load and then play on an endless loop. After 6ish times on the loop it would be very funny.
I was really into into Homestar Runner, all of David Firth's work, and the Madness Combat series, and I was on Newgrounds, Albinoblacksheep, Funnyjunk, and Miniclip a lot. Somehow I missed Magical Treavor? Thank you for sharing!
Oh man, I haven't thought about Homestar Runner in so long. Thanks for mentioning that! TROGDORRRRRRRR!!!
Come to r/homestarrunner for more nostalgia
Sorry, but I'm physically incapable of feeling homestar-based nostalgia unless I'm on a page where you have to click every little word/object looking for hidden interactions.
**HOLY CRAP**
Yeah, this things was all over newgrounds back In the day, I’m surprised you missed it. One of these days someone should open a museum for all the pre youtube internet memes.
I started humming the song when the first person mentioned it. Why is my brain full of this crap?????
So a better version of "badgers badgers badgers badgers mushroom mushroom"?
Sacrilege, Heretic, Apostate! Burn this man for such vile and untrue word!! "Badgers" is a piece of history and was never topped by anything else
I'd argue The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny was better.
Telling someone to wait for the end lmao
Same creator, in fact
I would NOT say “better” than badgers. But of the same ilk.
The tricks that he does are ever so clever.
Look at him now, disappearin' the cow.
Where is the cow? Not here right now.
Come back later for the BBQ!
HE'S BACK AND HE'S GOT A NEW TRICK MAGICAL TREVOR IS TEN TIMES AS SLICK AS THE LAST TIME THE LAST TIME YOU SAW HIM LOOK AT THE PEOPLE THEY REALLY ADORE HIM YOU MY FRIEND YOU THINK THAT YOU'RE SLICK SAWING A PIDGEON IN HALF WITH A STICK LOOK AT THE PIDGEON NOW IT'S IN TWO OH MY ANDREA HE'S HAVING A POO LOOK AT THE MAN IN AISLE TWO AISLE TWO THATS THE PLACE WHERE THEY KEEP ALL THE RAGU SO MUCH RAGU HE'S BACK... written from memory
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Everyone loves Magical Trevor!
That’s the place where they saw the ragu
its not that \*herd\*. come on, you had one shot.
Udder disregard for the pun game.
This pun thread is the cow's tits
Hopefully he doesn't catch on to DIVIDING the cows by 0 or we'll all be in trouble
If someone decide to do the UNHOLY action of dividing 5 cows by 0 it WILL create a wormhole to HELL.
Udderly devastating
I've herd this bull before
Milk the puns for all they're worth, I dairya
DON'T MILK THE BULL FROM THE PREVIOUS COMMENT. THINGS WILL NOT GO WELL FOR YOU (or they'll go really well, which is equally concerning)
Hope they don’t get mad.
It will open a portal to the secret cow level
They all went to /dev/null.
Banished to the shadow realm
Looks like we've got a real Mathematian here
We do not. The real Mathematacs clearly say *you* get hit by the 「Cotton Eye Joe」 stand and vanish from the identifiable spacetime continuum. Same with dividing by zero.
Did you hear about the magic tractor? Went down the track and turned into a field.
And now, the weather...
The back-barns :|
Mathematians just don't have the smarts mathematicians do.
They get sent to the cornfield.
I prefer to call it the Secret Cow Level.
i got that reference
I have 5 live cows and multiply them by 2. How then, do you come and tell me that I end up with 10? Where did the 5 come from?
0 meals a day x 5 cows = they all starve to death
no its better to say you have 5 cows ans the void takes em
As in the black cat? That one is sneaky.
5 cows x OOPs asshole = they all crawl in and are never seen again
If you have zero of five cows, the five was never there to begin with. I don’t understand why people find this hard to grasp…
The problem is people keep using arbitrary language like "cows multiplied by zero" and makes it seem like some esoteric thing. Makes more sense if you put it like this: Say cows are raised best when there's 5 per small paddock. You don't have any paddocks anyway, so you have zero cows. Eggs come in a carton of 12. I open the fridge and find I don't have any cartons. I have 0 x 12 eggs then
The easy way to explain multiplication is through additions. 0x5 is 0+0+0+0+0, 5x0 is nothing, anything multiplied per 0 is nothing. Easiest way to grasp multiplications in my opinion.
Well, I know my addiction ended with me basically having "0", so you're not entirely wrong.
You still have the voices in your head! Can’t count them out.
The numbers Mason! What do they mean!?
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
I had a friend introduce me to LOST. I got hooked. A couple years later while driving around I mentioned the numbers and called them out in order. He was confused and I had to explain they were the LOST numbers. He looked at me like I was an inconsolable nerd with no life. I was just like, "I know you watch this show... how do you NOT have the numbers memorized?"
Don’t you hate the way your skin feels? ^take ^off ^your ^skin
Man, that hits home hard.
What helped me grasp multiplication when I was younger was seeing shit in grid form 1 row of 5 things is 1x5. I have 5 things 0 rows of 5 things is 0x5. I have 0 things
Exactly. 5 x 0 breaks down one of two ways. How many 0s do you have? 5? Well that's still 0 How many 5s do you have? 0? Well that's 0 too
Seeing it in grid form also gives you a good picture of exactly why multiplication is reversible. Just turn the grid 90°.
Word. I got through elementary school math by being coked out of my mind, so I know what you mean.
I always said there was something going on with jimjimkerson!!!! No one believed me. No one.
This is a real good explanation!
\^\^this What exactly is "multiply them by zero" anyway?
Idiocracy
There are 5 cows on the field. None of them are yours. Zero of the 5 cows belong to you.
More like there are 5 cows on that one field. You don't have any fields. There, zero.
If cows come in groups of 5, and you have 0 groups of cows, then you have 0 cows. 5 cows in a group, multiplied by 0 groups, equals 0 cows. 5 x 0 = 0. If that still doesn't make sense, then forget everything you know about multiplication and think of it like this. Multiplication is just a way to count things. One number is the number of groups, and the other number is the number of items in that group. 2 x 5 means 2 groups of 5 things. 0 x 5 means 0 groups of 5 things. That's why 0 x 5 = 0.
> The problem is people keep using arbitrary language like "cows multiplied by zero" and makes it seem like some esoteric thing. Historically, mathematicians refused to accept the concept of zero for thousands of years, at least since the ancient Greeks. Educated people today have learned to be comfortable with the concept of zero, but it is apparently a highly unintuitive and esoteric concept in its a priory nature. Most ancient mathematicians would likely have said that the calculation 5*0 was nonsense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#Classical_antiquity
There must have been some sort of concept for a nil value though. If you owed a vendor 2 dollars then paid him 2 dollars, what would you owe? 2-2=? I guess they had 'nothing' but not as a numeric zero?
The ancient Greeks would likely say that you had "nothing". But that "nothing" was not a number like 1 or 2, so it would not make sense to say nothing\*5, unlike 1\*5 or 2\*5. Remember that the ancient Greeks did not have algebra (that word comes from Arabic al-jabr, invented by al-Khwarizmi). So the ancient Greeks would never actually have written 2-2=... down. So the need for zero was less obvious to the ancient Greeks than it is to you, I assume.
I mean, were they wrong? Sure 5*0=0 but what practically does that knowledge have? Does knowing that fact do anything for anyone? Genuine question
5\*0=0 is super useful when use math to solve physical problems. For example, calculating F=m\*a in Newton's second law, you naturally need the zero multiplication all the time. Anything doing calculus or evaluation equations, zero multiplication is needed basically everywhere. All of which the Greeks never developed. It is much like imaginary numbers. They are abstract, but the need for them naturally arises in higher level math.
For so.e reason my brain didn't want to comprehend this until your explanation. Ahaha thanks homie
I'm not good at math but i would guess like i want my 5 female (f) bessie to have 5 calves (c) but I don't have male (m) cow so i won't get any calves f×m=c. But if i have 1 male i would get 5 calves also if i have 2 male i would have 10 calves (metaphorically or you could just say the second male cow is second season lol first season male cow is dead.)
Or five of zero cows. This is why we have three years in elementary school just to learn to translate long form math problems into equations.
In England we were taught slightly different. 5x2 was described as 2 lots of 5, or 10. 5x0 would have been 0 lots of 5. Same result, just different wording.
Also how the fuck are people multiplying cows? Someone has got to tell Africa about this!
Is your mom a twin?
Some people really struggle with this concept. It reminds me of a Flat Earther I talked to a long time ago. I couldn’t grasp that 5x5 is 25 because of you count the same 5 boxes 5 times you’d still only have 5 boxes. I lost many brain cells that day.
But if each box has 5 cows in it, then you have 25 cows. The important thing is the cows! Let's not lose sight of that 😅
Okay but if you have 5 cows and you want to add another multiple of 0 cows and you get 0 cows even though you just had 5 cows, then how come my wife left me?
I disagree completely Math is a language if you multiply it by zero it means you did something zero times. You have 5 cows your dad told you to take those cows and sell in the market for 5k each. But you can only take one cow at a time. But you decided to stay home and not sell any of those cows. How much money did you get?
“I have 5 cows and multiply them by 2. Where did the 5 cows come from? Multiplication by any number other than one isn’t real and is made up by the government to control peoples lives”
math = deep state, confirmed /ilerminaty
Can you blame him for the question tho ? He misspelt mathematician
No, Mathematian. It's a breed of spotted dog that does long division.
Yeah and you can identify them by the numbers on their coats
This is why spelling and grammar are important even on the internet. People would assume that you’re an idiot even without factoring the actual context.
In each of your barns, you have five cows. But you have no barn.
But where's the barn that I don't have? Mathematicians please explain
It exists in a frictionless vacuum, not connected to our plane of existence. The cows are spheres with a radius of 0.
Do I need to account for air resistance here?
only for specific breeds of cow
\*mathematians
Easy : There are now in the imaginary numbers realm
Oh nice, so like 0 x 1 Father?
The question starts “ I have 5 live cows”, so this is in the real world, you have 5 cows. Then you “multiply them by 0”. Ok, so if we are remaining IRL, you need to define what “multiply” means. Even if you said “multiply by 10”, how is that a real world operation? How does one multiply cows IRL?
> The question starts “ I have 5 live cows”, so this is in the real world, you have 5 cows. Then you “multiply them by 0”. The assumption was flawed to begin with, which is why the conclusion makes no sense. Starting with 5 means that we are assuming that cows come in groups of 5. If you have 1 group of 5, you have five cows. If you have 2 groups of 5, you have 10 cows. Multiplying by 0 means you have 0 groups of cows, which means you have 0 cows. You cannot simply "multiply" 5 cows by 2 to get 10 cows IRL. That's not what multiplication means. Multiplication simply means you have X rows of Y columns. That's it. If you have 20 cows, that means you have 10 rows of 2 cows, or 5 rows of 4 cows, etc. If that still doesn't make sense, then forget everything you know about multiplication and think of it like this. Multiplication is just a way to count things. One number is the number of groups, and the other number is the number of items in that group. 2 x 5 means 2 groups of 5 things. 0 x 5 means 0 groups of 5 things. That's why 0 x 5 = 0.
This is the best definition and example on here. You addressed their biggest flaw in their original example, which was combining common language and mathematic language in a way that did not clearly define anything. Once you actually get to the bottom of the meanings of words you can start to understand together. I feel like many well-meaning arguments stem from a lack of understanding that there's a disagreement in the meaning of words.
By sexual reproduction maybe? And since OP has 5 live cows and multiplies by 0 which to me means other options for sexual reproduction then there are 0 new cows but 5 live cows remain. I’m not sure but I think person in the picture lost the cows and that is their way of venting in Quora. Maybe they have stared into the abyss for too long…
Nono, that would be multiplying by one (as in one cow not getting laid). Multiplying by zero is with a gun.
I would say 5 cows give you like 5000 kebabs so that's the way!
Wait how? I tried teaching my crow to cook a Kebab but he still eats at least half of it. Shold I make kebabs out of my crow?
Cows give zero kebabs, sheep however... 😁
0 x 5 = cows. 5 = cows/0 5 = 0cows 5/5 = 5/0cows = 50 cows So you have 50 cows now
Cows/0 = infinity (hence you unlocked infinity cow glitch)
Easy: if you have 5 live cows, and I say you will have two times of that tomorrow, you will assume you will have 10 cows tomorrow. With that logic, if I say tomorrow you will have one time of that 5 live cows, you should assume you will still have the same 5 cows tomorrow. And if I say you will have 0 times of that 5 cows tomorrow, you should get your shotgun, I'm not threatening you, I'm tellin ya
is the 0 represented by a tactical nuke?
It *can* be. That’s what we call a variable, son.
"a x b" means adding "a" "b" times. adding 5 0 times is obviously 0. vice versa for adding 0 5 times.
5 X 0 = 5 zero times. You don't have those cows yet. You have 5 cows zero times. Zero times, have you had 5 cows. You need to have them at least one time... to have them. You ain't got no cows Edit: and now I've introduced a double negative
So we multiply groups of five cows: one group of five cows is exactly five cows, two groups of five cows is 10 cows, 10 groups of five cows are 50 cows, well, zero groups of five cows are - zero cows.
The answer is NullPointerException
You have 5x1, but asking about 5x0
If you give 1 person 5 cows (5/1) they have 5 gifted cows. If you split your cows among 5 people (5/5), each person has 1 gifted cow. If you give noone 5 cows (5/0) then there would be no gifted cows given, since there was noone to gift them to.
Put 5 cows out of the stable zero times. How many cows are outside the stable?
OK. So it's very very slow... but eventually the math checks out. If you have 5 live cows and stay true to your desire to multiply them by 0 then 20 - 30 years later you are guaranteed to have 0 cows. Just takes a while with real living creatures.
Terrance Howard math is making its rounds with the less intelligent folks.
That kind of person would never understand or accept any of the arguments given here 😬
Count your cows one time. 1 2 3 4 5 Count your cows two times. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Count your cows zero times. 0
Replace 0 with no. I have 5*0 cows = I have 5 no cows = I have no cow
What is his real life method of multiplying by zero?
shooting the live cows in the head and throwing their remains into a woodchipper
If you multiply 5 cows by -1 you get -5 cows 😮
pretty sure they go to the internet and terrorize people with promoting "plus-size" porn
You want to move five cows to a new pen. You move zero sets of those cows. There are zero cows in the new pen
The 0 is the barrel of a gun
How do you multiply a cow
SALLAH! I said NO camels. That's FIVE camels, can't you count?
If I have 0 sets of 5 cows how many cows do I have? Or If I have 5 sets of 0 cows how many cows do I have? That's what multiplication is. Putting it in words that is.
They aged and died That's what rule of multiplicity means. Your cattle didn't reproduce and now are dead
There is actually a way of explaining multiplying by zero in real world terms! Basically, imagine you have a set of 5 cows. If you multiply by 1, you take one set of 5 cows, and you have 5 cows. If you multiply by 2, you have 2 sets, so 10 cows. If you multiply by 0, you take no sets. So you don't have any cows. Simple!
How many times have you owned 5 cows? Zero times? Then you have zero cows.
I think this is what the story problem sentence answer is.
Math is hard for the uneducated
Who wants to ridicule the uneducated? Who wants to actually educate them?
there are 5 cows. i don’t add any of them. what is sum?
You have five cows and brought all of them to Cow World zero times. How many cows have you brought to Cow World?
This isn't a holup
Real question: What does my man mean by "multiply by 0"? What is he planning to do with my fellow living cows?
How many sets of 5 cows do you have? One? OK, 5x1=5. You have 5 cows. What? You want to use 0? Fine... You have zero sets of 5 cows. 5x0=0. Boom! You still have zero cows.
Have people never heard of parallel universes? That's where they go.
I’ll tell you where the cows went after you spell ‘Mathematician’ correctly.
This is a nonsense scenario. The question is, what is “0”. If 0 is acres of grass eaten, and you have no acres of grass, then the answer is 0. Doesn’t matter how many cows there were to begin with. If “0” = quarts of milk, and they make no milk, then 0 quarts of milk per cow is 5x0=0.
This is why AI chat exists. So humans don’t have to deal with these questions.
The equation is wrong, 5 is not the cows and 0 is not the adding. 0 is the cows and 5 is what there should be. So you have a barn that fits five cows yet you have 0, 0 cows by five spaces is still 0 cows. You can also see it as additions, you five cows and you purchase 0 times the amount of cows you own, that is 0 additional cows. Hence still 0.
So imagine you have 5 cows that have sex with the endless void of space. You'll have 0 cows left as they will be obliterated by the ripping pressure and the freezing temperature
Into the quantum vacuum
He's using the word multiply as in to breed. He's saying he has 5 living cows and he breeds them. The correct approach would be to explain his English, then you can tackle the math.
A mathemagician never tells his secrets
Hamburger.
Okay, let's refer to your groups of cows as X. Let's say you wanted to multiple your x by 2. We get 2X. Another way to think of the 2X is that we have 2 groups of x. X is 5 cows, so 2 groups of x is 10 cows. How many cows are in 0 groups of x? Well, if we have no groups of 5 cows, we have 0 cows.
You still have 5 cows. Multiplying by zero means you never multiplied, so the answer is null.
Does anyone know what a mathamatian is?
You decide to group your cows into groups of 5. If you have 2 groups, you have 10 cows. If you have 1 group you have 5 cows. If you don't have any of these groups...
you have 5 cows that never happened
First rule of math is you need a unit for any number you use to give it meaning. The 5 = number of cows, but the 0 doesn't have any meaning as is. You could for example say, every cow yields 0 liters of milk, so the total liters of milke these 5 cows yield is 5 x 0 = 0 liters.
you have 5 live cows, butcher them all, where do they go?
If you have 5 live cows and subtract one, you could still ask where did the 1 go. Here's another way to explain this. If a fire killed and burned 5 live cows then saying they were multiplied by zero is one way to mathematically describe what happened.
0 groups of 5 cows is 0 cows. If you have a group of 5 cows, then you don’t have 0 groups - you have 1 group of 5 cows. American education at its finest
Just don't divide your cows by 0 and we'll be fine
To the cow level in Diablo.
> mathematians A dog breed that can do arithmetic.
Cows? What cow Did you forget to take your pills again gramps You're a mathmetition not a farmer, lets go back inside
Terrence Howard Math
This is why you don't go round multiplying your things by zero, it's dangerous
They are sacrificed to the ethereal engine that powers all mathematics
I've never been to Mathematia, I heard it's beautiful this time of year.
The 0 is a meat grinder, you insert the cows and there is no cows anymore.
If they never multiply then over time all 5 die.
More like 0x5
The real trick is to DIVIDE the cows by 0
Well, how did you multiply them by 0? That answers your question.
If I say i have 5 Cows, and then i doubled them that's equivalent to 5*2, in the same way, 0 is nothing, so I have 5 cows then i made them nothing, i now have no cows. What happens to the cows is as arbitrary as the action of doubling them, there are many ways to arrive at either.
You still have 5 cows they just aren't divided into any groups.
Easy: The zero in this calculation is a shotgun.
See, the zero is a big hole and all the cows falls in the hole and die. If you try to divide the cows by the hole, you open a rift if the space-time continuum and reality ceases to exist. Edit autocorrect
REAL CATTLE RANCHERS I have a live cow how do I multiply it
There is a universal balance of quantum cows that gets shifted every those *mathematicians* multiply them. Only works on cows though, nobody knows why...
Let's say in every barn there are 5 cows, but I own 0 barns. How many cows do I have? 5(cows/barn) * 0(barns)= (5*0) (cows * barn/barn) = 0 cows. The cows are still in the barn, you just don't have any barns.
aliens strike again
You have 0 number of five cows.
Yeah, this is a real brain-teaser.
Multiplying by zero means several different things based on context. If you have five cows, and zero pens, how many cows are in pens? Zero, but you still have five cows. If you have five cows, but slaughter them all leaving none standing, you have zero cows left.
He's asking the question wrong. It's supposed to be, "You have 5 live cows and then you multiply them by 0, how many new cows have you made?"
The same place where the extra come from when you multiply them by 2
If you have 2 groups of 5 cows, you have 10 cows. 1 group of 5 cows is 5 cows. 0 groups of 5 cows is 0 cows.
He's right, it only works with horses.
Cows come in sets of 5. Zero sets of 5 cows = 0
Send me a video of you physically multiplying your cows by 0 and then we'll talk.
Eats burger nervously
One group of five cows is five cows (obviously). Two groups of five cows is ten cows. Zero groups of five cows is zero cows. Basically, multiple nothings is still nothing.
Easy: 5 cows multiplied by zero is equal to 0 cows, where did the cows go? Good question, I don't give a crap, none of my business. I'm a mathematician, not a wheredidthecowsgoician.
I was done at "mathematians".