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Variables in Math

Leja · 2007-07-30T03:29:27Z

I am in need of a math person to help me: Is time classified as a variable? I'd think it should be, but you can't say something like "as the number of things on the desk increases, so does time". Okay, well, you could, but the things on the desk would be dependent on time as opposed to time being dependent on the number of things on the desk. Or it should seem, given that anything else would be difficult to comprehend. Or have I confused the definition of a variable? I suppose, at bare bones, my question is whether I can correctly state this list: -length -width -height -time I want to say "yes" because as the list gets longer, the number of dimensions increases. Does time count as a fourth dimension, or is it farther down on the list? [this isn't too too relevent to my original question (or maybe it is) but is a dimension synnonymous with a variable? The way I've phrased my question above makes it seem like it would be, but I'm questioning my question now... hmm, after thinking about it some more, I wonder if a dimension is usually a variable, but a variable isn't necessarily a dimension... ] ...help?

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Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:30 pm

Snoink says... · Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:30 pm

Yeah... Incan is right. Though many people believe that time is the fourth dimension, mathematics does not state that time has to be any dimension. Though I realize that might seem confusing at the moment. Oh well. Take some linear algebra, and you'll start to see.

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