Jesus Shuttlesworth
I Got Game
I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about now friend.
Are you saying that the number 10 = 0?
Let's say you and I are counting points in a basketball game. We both count 5 buckets. I count 5 points, you count 10. So in this case, my 5 = your 10 right? 5 baskets is 5 baskets, regardless of how you count them, by 1's, 2's, 3.14's, tick marks, whatever.
No matter how you count it, what we know as the number 5 is the amount of baskets that were made, right? I say that to say this... numbers are a tool. We use them to measure quantities of units. Numbers are a mathematical alphabet, if you will. Certain symbols represent certain sounds, we all them letters. Certain symbols represent certain values, we call them numbers.
So now let's consider counting time. Time is infinite, would you agree. Yet we say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
or easier seen
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
So after 0, we started at 1 again, in the ones place right? Because that's how our number system works. Decimal. Based on 10 digits. But 10 doesn't represent the end of our counting, even though we're starting back at 1. So did that 0 really represent the end? It represented the end of a set in our number system but in terms of time, what we're counting, that "0" doesn't exist and there is no "starting back at one". Time just keeps going.
As you said:
Once we go past 9, we begin a ten's column
But what is really beginning? Nothing relative. Just a reference for us, but in reality, what our numbers represent as "beginning" is actually "continuing".
"We" begin a tens column but time knows no such boundaries.