The world is full of wonders, and there are many interesting things in our mathematics kingdom. For example, in my ninth exercise book, there is a thinking question that reads: "A bus goes from Dongcheng to Xicheng at a speed of 45 kilometers per hour and stops after 2.5 hours. At this time, it is just 18 km away from the center of the east and west cities. How many kilometers is it between East and West? When Wang Xing and Xiaoying solve the above problems, their calculation methods and results are different. Wang Xing's mileage is less than Xiao Ying's, but xu teacher said that both of them were right. Why is this? Have you figured it out? You can also calculate the calculation results of both of them. " In fact, we can quickly work out a method for this problem, which is: 45× 2.5 = 1 12.5 (km),112.5+18 =130.5 (. In fact, we have neglected a very important condition here, that is, the word "Li" mentioned in the condition is "just 18 km from the center of the east and west cities", and it does not say whether it has not yet reached the midpoint or exceeded the midpoint. If the distance from the midpoint is less than 18km, the formula is the previous one; If it is greater than 18km, the formula should be 45× 2.5 = 1 12.5 (km), 1 12.5-65448. Therefore, the correct answer should be: 45 × 2.5 = 1 12.5 (km),12.5+18 =130.5 (km),/kloc-. Two answers, that is to say, Wang Xing's answer and Xiaoying's answer are comprehensive. In daily study, there are often many math problems with multiple solutions, which are easily overlooked in practice or examination. This requires us to carefully examine the problem, awaken our own life experience, scrutinize it carefully, and fully and correctly understand the meaning of the problem. Otherwise, it is easy to ignore other answers and make a mistake of generalizing.
2 About "0"
0, can be said to be the earliest human contact number. Our ancestors only knew nothing and existence at first, and none of them was 0, so 0 isn't it? I remember the primary school teacher once said, "Any number minus itself is equal to 0, and 0 means there is no number." This statement is obviously incorrect. As we all know, 0 degrees Celsius on the thermometer indicates the freezing point of water (that is, the temperature of ice-water mixture at standard atmospheric pressure), where 0 is the distinguishing point between solid and liquid water. Moreover, in Chinese characters, 0 means more as zero, such as: 1) fragmentary; A small part. 2) The quantity is not enough for a certain unit ... At this point, we know that "no quantity is 0, but 0 not only means no quantity, but also means the difference between solid and liquid water, and so on." "Any number divided by 0 is meaningless." This is a "conclusion" about 0 that teachers from primary school to middle school are still talking about. At that time, division (primary school) was to divide a copy into several parts and figure out how many there were in each part. A whole cannot be divided into 0 parts, which is "meaningless". Later, I learned that 0 in a/0 can represent a variable with zero as the limit (the absolute value of a variable is always smaller than an arbitrarily small positive number in the process of change) and should be equal to infinity (the absolute value of a variable is always larger than an arbitrarily large positive number in the process of change). From this, another theorem about 0 is obtained: "A variable whose limit is zero is called infinitesimal". "Room 203 105 in 2003", although all of them are zeros, they are roughly similar in appearance; They have different meanings. 0 indicator vacancy of 105 and 2003 cannot be deleted. 0 in Room 203 separates "Building (2)" from "House Number". (3) "(that is, Room 8 on the second floor) can be deleted. Einstein once said, "From a macro point of view, I always think it is absurd to explore the meaning and purpose of a person or all living things." I want to study all the numbers of "existence", so I'd better know the number of "non-existence" first, so as not to become what Einstein called "absurd". As a middle school student, my ability is limited after all, and my understanding of 0 is not thorough enough. In the future, I hope (including action) to find "my new continent" in the "ocean of knowledge".