Terrence Howard

Multiplication should initially started as exaggerated addition.

That was the whole point of it.

And that's the problems with the identity principle that they've been trying to work on for years.

For years.

Norman J. Wildberger talks about it.

It is what's... Because you have to cancel conservation of energy and you have to cancel the action and reactionary laws in order for one times one.

Now, I understand.

You're seeing one, one time.

But because of the associative law, the associative law that says if A and B are both positive integers, then A is to be added to itself in multiplication.

A is to be added to itself as many units as is indicated by B. Hang on there.

No, what I'm saying is that to say zero, zero is supposed to represent no thing, nothing whatsoever.

But they have zero as a number, set up as a number.

But to say no thing...

your brain creates a chemical structure even in saying nothing.

So there is what I'm saying philosophically.

So zero is the- I would say none, yeah.

But to multiply something by the nothing, to multiply something by nothing, don't they have to be dimensionally equal in order to multiply?

Like you can't multiply a human by an ant because they're not dimensionally equal.

No, that was your point about dollars, right?

No, the problem comes up with the Dewey Decimal System, why a dollar times a dollar can be different values based on different currencies.