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What is the largest number you can represent with 3 digits?

Posted by $ WilliamShipley 9 years, 5 months ago to Education
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No, it's not 999. This is a father's story on how he battled the entire educational system over his daughter's answer.

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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 4 months ago
    Loved that quote at the end of the article by Mark Twain: "I never let schooling interfere with my education."
    That inspires me to write: "Never again let Common Core interfere with your child's education."
    Feel free to use that or even to improve on it.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Common Core professes to set certain minimal standards for attaining different grade and later degree levels. It only works in education systems which have standards. Which neatly leaves out most if not all of the Common Core Crowd
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 4 months ago
    Public school is a bad idea in the first place and should be abolished. Common core is just a logical extension of enforced public education. I call enforced public schools. ",government indoctrination centers". They might as well teach the earth is flat
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  • Posted by $ dballing 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's not 9 to the 99th.

    It's 9 to the ninth to the ninth

    I did it on my calculator the other day and if I remember correctly it said 75 digits
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  • Posted by ProfChuck 9 years, 4 months ago
    Common core is like saying everyone must wear a size 9 shoe. Standardization is fine when it comes to nut and bolt sizes but when it comes to the human intellect it gets in the way of thinking. Conformity might be fine for social insects but human beings are not bugs.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    An Army experience. the eventual Advanced and Senior Courses were based on a course previously set up to cross train our team members in a second skill set. But we had to attend both. The instructor was a flake and did not know the subject especially for that level.

    One of our group did much the same but since we outranked the instructor did not ask for permission. He sat in a student chair and we divided up the syllabus and turned it into a course for training senior people to be instructors. Then at the last moment turned the class back over and applauded our 'best student' who had accepted what was not an insult but a helping hand. Guy was professional enough and asked how we knew all that?

    Simple....we wrote the original course.

    Many would have called the principal except in this case the principal was an officer from that former group who wrote the syllabus.

    The rest of the class went back to their home units not only with extra skills but the ability to teach others.

    All in all it wasn't the waste of time to punch a ticket twice and we all benefited. For once so did the taxpayer.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I saw some of the formulas for expressing numbers of that size and even then they stopped at an answer ending in to the 94th power. Just for curiosity I'm wondering how many digits would be involved in the entire nine to ninety ninth sequence.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 9 years, 4 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Use that number (for example) as the base for expressing numbers and the result is even larger, but you do need some new symbols for the digits.
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  • Posted by $ HeroWorship 9 years, 4 months ago
    Fun. inspiring tenacity and standing for truth. And the "you had your chance" bit that forces everyone else to get graded down because of an inflexible bureaucracy - an Asshole move. What is just in one context is not necessarily just in another.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 4 months ago
    This reminds me of an incident I had in first grade when I looked over at my best friend. The teacher had made three errors of nine + nine or less in the last couple of days. I asked my friend, "Should I volunteer to teach the class, or do you want to?" He said, "Go ahead." Knowing that I was going to get the paddle, I raised my hand politely, and when called upon, said, "Maam. This is the third mistake you have made in basic addition in the last couple of days. Do you mind if I get up and teach the class?" As was the student in the story, I was sent to the principal for being "disruptive".
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 4 months ago
    But according to many almost the whole planet it 's the number of years in the second millennium. Coupled with giving zero a value of 1. The mathematical proof is the same formula that describes the group in question. X+Y=Zero using Zero to replace Millennial.

    387,420,489. nine to the ninth my calculator gave up

    Asking Google resulted in the comment the number is so large it would take more space than this forum allows.

    I suspect his daughter was entirely correct and has somehow evaded being part of the x+y=z generation.
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