Maths Idea – Boxes

By well-wisher

Tue, 05 May 2015
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A box is a container for a number, for example “a box of 3”, when the boxes are multiplied the number inside each box is unaltered.

So, for example,

2 boxes of 3 is not 6, it is 2 boxes of 3.

2 times 2 boxes of 3 is not 12, it is 4 boxes of 3.

You see, the boxes are multiplied but the number within each box remains the same.

Why did you come up with this idea?:

I came up with this idea so that I could do this sum:

1 box of zero (empty box) plus 1 box of zero is 2 boxes of zero.

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Submitted by well-wisher on

I know when I say these outrageous things, I may be saying something completely mad and wrong and that I may appear to be a kook and be accused of wooly thinking or sheer ignorance and yet I believe that even a mad and wrong idea, if it is a new and interesting and imaginative one is worth stating.

Furthermore, mistakes are part of the process of elimination that leads to truth and knowledge.

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

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