What would happen if we all decided that 3 = 407? That is, if whenever we found the number 3 (not just the digit), we could replace it freely with the number 407 and vice versa. We wouldn't change the times table or addition or subtraction facts explicitly, we just decided that 3 = 407.
What would happen? Would you notice?
6 comments:
I'd think one or two of us would notice.
But I'm missing the point.
Heh. Word verification is "point".
Hope I don't miss that.
I would totally borrow three dollars from you, order three beers, and then pay you back four (interest you know).
Oh, the answer is my liver would be totally destroyed, who knew?
If 3=407 then 407=3. I like this. I'll buy a vehicle with $407-a-week payments and use 12 quarters to pay the bill. Yup, I like this very much.
That would actually save me some typing, as my ZIP code would be 293. The +4 would then be 33, which could cause some confusion or small black holes that would eat the earth up. So the plan is acceptable to me, as long as we simultaneously ban the ZIP+4 and go back to regular ZIP codes.
How about this: imagine all the engineering calculations that would mysteriously blow up because 3 or 407 would have been replaced. The cool think is that you'd never know which ones. Things would just start failing for no reason at all.
It would sure play heck with the Mass, now wouldn't it?
...and the Kingston Trio would need larger venues,
and how the heck are you going to get 407 of a Kind?
*I'm stumped*
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