🧵 Funny Numbers

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Jul 2024 00:27:20 UTC No. 16275347

For Eric W.

In honor of Terrence Howard I want to propose an idea to you called: "Funny Numbers"

Funny numbers are like integers in every way except for the Multiplication operation. When you take a Funny Number and multiply it by another Funny Number you get a very different result from Integers.

For Funny Numbers a x b = a + a + a ... where the number of "plus signs" is equal to the Funny Number b.

The other aspect of Funny Numbers is they are the same exact group of numbers as Integers with the only change being in the multiplication operation. In fact they could very well equal the Real Number set as well but I haven't done the work to prove this :)

Putting these two ideas together 1 x 1 = 2, 1 x 2 = 3, 1 x 3 = 4, etc...
And of course 2 x 2 = 6 and 2 x 1 = 4! (that is not a factorial)
And 6,576 x 4,321 = 28,421,472

So then what is 1 x 0? Why it is 1 of course!
And what is 1 x -1? well it is the same as 1 - 1 so it is 0.
And 1 x -4 = 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 -1 = 3
And 2 x -3 = -4