Exponents

In this blog the numbers are as they are called in the United States. They may be called different names in other countries.

I was watching 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire ?' and one of the easy questions was: What is thousand times thousand?  The answer of course is one million, in which the contestant knew. She only had to add three zeroes at the end of the number one thousand 1,000,000 making it one million.

If it was a hard question in my case, I would have been using the exponents for example (10^3) x  (10^3) = (10^6) which means the
number 1 followed by 6 zeroes or one million. Yes, you add the exponents to multiply and subtract the exponents  when dividing..

Now for a hard question:  What is a trillion divided by a billion?
In the United States the small scale trillion is the number 1 followed by 12 zeroes.

 A billion is the number 1 followed by 9 zeroes. Can the person actually keep track of all the zeroes when dividing in their head ?  That's going to be hard !

1,000,000,000,000 divided by 1,000,000,000 of course  is easy with pencil and paper and crossing out zeroes making the answer one thousand. However on 'Millionaire' you will not be allowed to use paper and pencil, making figuring exponents in your head the best option.

(10^12) divided by (10^9) when the exponents are subtracted (since we are dividing this time) smaller from the larger, we get the answer (10^3) which is the number one followed by three zeroes or one thousand. So a trillion (small scale) divided by a billion is a thousand.

Now there is a long scale trillion which is the number one followed by 18 zeroes instead of 12 zeroes.Of course on Millionaire they probably would have to state if it's the large scale trillion or the small scale trillion to be fair.

What do the exponents mean ?  Let's find all the combinations of Bingo .No, it is not 75 combinations but;
              (15^5) or ( 15 x 15 x 15 x 15 x 15)
 giving us the answer of: 759,375 combinations and not 75.

I can break down those bingo combinations, like how many odds-evens there are, or how many combinations are all odd, but since most bingo places do not allow a person to choose their own card(s) any more, why bother?

Now for math oddities: 
What is zero in the zero power ? (0^0) is it one or zero ?
No one really knows, so it 's undefined. On old computers they will give an error message, but on new computers Google calculator will give you the answer as one; Even the zero in zero power, it's just the way that Google calculator is programmed . However, (0^0) is never use anyway, so why worry about it?

What is 6 divided by zero ? Is it 6 , 0  or infinity ? Another 
mathematical oddity.

Another oddity the square root of a negative number { -25^ (1/2)} Google calculator will give this result as -5 which is classified as an imagery number. It can  also be written  as, i = -5,.simply because
 -5 x -5 gives us actually a positive 25 (+25) and not a negative 25 (-25).
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What ?!! ,A State Highway Inside Of An Airplane?

In 1968 I joined the navy. A car pick me up and drove me to the Columbus, Ohio airport.It was the first time I have had seen an airplane full size. Man, those suckers are huge. I just don't know how they even get off the ground. 

When I was seated  every time I talked I could of sworn  I heard my own voice behind me. I heard other people also talking about going their way to boot camp.

Finally, we stopped at a Chicago bus station and boarding the bus taking us on our way to boot camp.

In about 20 minutes at 3:45 A.M Illinois time we arrived at boot camp and everything all of a sudden got quiet. We went to bed at 3:50 A.M  about an 1/2 hour later we were told to get up. Geeze..

I had a knot in my stomach but fortunately they had a brand names soda machine.They told me I didn't need to put any money in the coin slot, just press the button of the drink I wanted. The soda did helped my stomach a little bit.

We were given clothes, sewing kit, a Bible, and a chit book which was like those old food stamp books tearing out the amount you want when going to stores, except it was not limited just for food. 

At least we got three meals a day we did not have to pay and we were free to choose what ever we wanted on our plates.  

During our first week we marched most of the day and even sang a marching song once.We went to bed at 9:30 PM and were awaken at 4:30 AM 

After we got our buzz cuts we were tailored for  our sailor uniforms and  were issued rifles. A rifle? I never shot a weapon in my life. I  don't even hunt or fish; Not too mention I had to  get used to listening to new adjectives.

Finally my two year term was up and I was honorably discharged. They told me I can re-enlist BUT with a chance going to Vietnam ?!, No thank you. "I'm out of here !". 

 I am glad I didn't have the opportunely to kill anyone, friend or foe. Now don't tell me that is nothing to be proud of !.

I was driven to the O' Hare airport boarded a plane. A beautiful stewardess took me to my seat and took my order from a menu which I wasn't charge. 

Forty-five minutes later, at Columbus, Ohio it was time for me to dis board but it was a huge plane and even saw a highway through glass windows inside the plane then I caught on;They probably had "docked" at the bus station. Yes, I wondered, what is a highway doing inside of an airplane?

I was allowed to keep some of my navy clothes which still had my military serial number paint-stamped on them including the duffel bag.

About three months later my sister got a nursing job and a new apartment, which she was going to share with her female friend. She took my duffel bag, took out all my comic books,all my movie magazines, all  my Reader's Digest books and the book I was reading green hard cover "How Green Was My Valley ?" 

I decided to help my sister out, by folding all her clothes into triangles before putting them in my duffel bag. It turned out she didn't want her clothes folded into triangles. lol  (end)