@mister kitten,
mister kitten;149045 wrote:One raised to the power of infinity would equal one?
Yessir, it does seem so. I think a limit concept would be used, but the game is the same. 1 to the power of x, as x tends toward infinity, still equals one.
It seems to me that 1 times 1 is the same as 0 plus 0. 1 is the zero of multiplication/division. And 0 is the 1 of addition/subtraction.
Ratio is basically division. In some ways, division is the root of it all. But in a practical sense, adding is the root. But the rub is this. What is 5, if not 5/1? For 5 is just five ones. 5 is a shorthand symbol for 5 unities.
I also can't help but think of the important fact that any number can be written in any base. And computers do all their math in binary, for instance. So the arabic numerals and the base of 10 mean NOTHING, not
essentially. We happen to have 10 fingers. That's all. And Pythagoras and the gang were fond of 10.