If you really want to be entertained, ask Jim about 5th normal form sometime ;-)
>I loved this post. :o)
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>>David,
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>>We can get linguistic here and simply ask how does one write -2 squared in a math equation? I was always taught the squared means raised to the power of 2 which would be -2^2 for -2 squared and since we know that -2 squared is 4 there's the answer.
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>>To deal with the sitckier folks who might say that -2 squared is written as -1*2^2 then we ask how does one write 2 squared? I can't imagine anyone suggersting that 2 squared is written as 1*2^2, that would indicate that 2 is written as 1*2 or that -2 is written as -1*2 (which when reduced equals -2) ahem, are we sufficiently going in circles here yet?
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