And why do negative numbers exist?
EDIT: thank you all so much for answering. I actually understand now. I wish they explained it this simply in school 😭
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How many times can you fit 1 inside of 1? Just once.
How many times can you fit .1 into 1? 10 times. See how the resulting number got bigger?
If you don’t like working with the decimal, you can also change it to a fraction.
(.1 = 1/10, because it is in the tenths decimal slot, where as .01 = 1/100, .001= 1/1000, and so on.)
Negative numbers exist because you can set a limit in the real world and still go below that limit. Think about it.
People go into debt to pay for things they don’t have the money for.
If you go cave diving but we measure altitude by height above sea level, how would you describe where you are if you go a certain depth below the surface?
There’s a real world use for Negative numbers, so they have to exist.
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