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On Blank =Zero Debate: Bawumiah Deserves A Nobel Prize

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  • Asiedu Betwani Nketiah 10 years ago

    Thank you for your excellent piece. Those who are laughing Dr. Bawu. should be pitied. If a teacher gives a test and a student decides not to write anything on the paper. At the end of the exam, the paper will be blank. When ...
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  • IET 10 years ago

    nothing intelligent in it

  • KK 10 years ago

    Thank you Indeed!!!. Just Because We can not SEE God and touch HIM. God is blank and is therefore equals zero. Good Analysis.

  • REALITY 10 years ago

    I am not a mathematician but common sense tell me an empty house can not be 0 house as the writer want us to believe.
    Dealing with blanks is different from dealing with sheets that contain figures and numbers and so taking e ...
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  • Kofi Yaro 10 years ago

    if a space for number of ballots issued is blank but there are actual votes of verified voters in transparent ballot box witnessedand attested to by reps of all political parties, common sense should tell you that blan is not ...
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  • bisa 10 years ago

    your quantitative ability is not different from your 4th grade daughter. Mathematically and logically, A BLANK SPACE=ZERO

  • LEVI 10 years ago

    You are not ready to accept the fact. Politics has left you dumb and blind. If blank is not equals zero, what is it then? Give the author some credit with such a brilliant analysis.

  • daniel 10 years ago

    Stop this miseducation. If people go to the polls to vote and a count is made for the various candidates and I leave a blank space for the total doesn't mean nobody voted. you just fighting a lost cause.

  • Simms 10 years ago

    I thought the author is addressing blank=zero? Did you read about the court case in this fine analysis?

  • PK 10 years ago

    In that case, what figure was announced at the polling station and transmitted to the collation centre as the result? This is a very good incentive for fraud. Bawumia was right to include these instances as cases of over-voti ...
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  • Simms 10 years ago

    If we are for a second to side with the lunatic, inward-looking rantings of the resident Say It Loud IDIOT, ZEO, the worshipper of mortals, then it is appropriate to say that the overthrow of Dr. Hilla Limaan by the imbecile ...
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  • Simms 10 years ago

    If we are for a second to side with the lunatic, inward-looking rantings of the resident Say It Loud IDIOT, ZEO, the worshipper of mortals, then it is appropriate to say that the overthrow of Dr. Hilla Limaan by the imbecile ...
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  • Simms 10 years ago

    Asiedu Nketsia might benefit from this fine analysis of blank=zero. The other time, I heard him scoffing over Dr. Bawumia's analysis of blank is zero. Please someone should kindly alert Asiedu Nketsia to read this, it might h ...
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  • Simms 10 years ago

    Asiedu Nketsia might benefit from this fine analysis of blank=zero. The other time, I heard him scoffing over Dr. Bawumia's analysis of blank is zero. Please someone should kindly alert Asiedu Nketsia to read this, it might h ...
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  • Simms 10 years ago

    Asiedu Nketsia might benefit from this fine analysis of blank=zero. The other time, I heard him scoffing over Dr. Bawumia's analysis of blank is zero. Please someone should kindly alert Asiedu Nketsia to read this, it might h ...
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  • Simms 10 years ago

    Asiedu Nketsia might benefit from this fine analysis of blank=zero. The other time, I heard him scoffing over Dr. Bawumia's analysis of blank is zero. Please someone should kindly alert Asiedu Nketsia to read this, it might h ...
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  • John Anamse 10 years ago

    What do the blanks on Bawumia's pink sheet exhibits mean? Do they also mean zero?

    Etua wo yonko a etua dua.

    In the equation;
    40 = ____ + 25
    Does the blank mean a zero?

    Keep on equating blanks to zero and you will h ...
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  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    I think you are loosing it already. The space was supposed to have been filled. It is only a thief who will leave it blank because by filling in the blank, the truth is easily detectable. He chooses not to fill in the blanks ...
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  • John Anamse 10 years ago

    Do you mean that NPP is only speculating that the Presiding Officer left it blank because he wanted to cheat.
    So this is speculative but not water tight evidence.

  • Kwobia(Toronto) 10 years ago

    Please stop this stupidity.A blank space is always a blank space.Zero means there is nothing there.Please stop needlessly trying to complicate people's lives.We are not stupid.

  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    You call this educative analysis stupidity? A blank space is equal to zero, there is nothing there.

    Let me give you a better analysis.

    There are five Baskets numbered 1-5

    The five baskets have oranges in them except ...
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  • Angelo 10 years ago

    Thank you K. Badu for this excellent analysis, it sounds right. I think we should not accept mediocrity in matters of national importance such as election recording since there is always the risk there may be some misundersta ...
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  • LEVI 10 years ago

    That's good analysis, well done.

  • Victor A. Young 10 years ago

    ZERO for Basket #5 = 0. It's plain and simple! It's only the NDC "tiiifs" who won't accept the truth because the truth hurts. They stole the December elections. The evidence Dr. Bawumia has isn't his own cooked-up numbers/fig ...
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  • Aunty 10 years ago

    I am a simple class room teacher but Cardinal your analysis could also look like this:

    There are five Baskets numbered 1-5

    "The five baskets have oranges in them except one. Your Teacher asks you to count the number of ...
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  • JONES 10 years ago

    Your explanation is vague teacher. I pray you don't confuse your students. I think the author is arguing about blank=zero? And, where in the article do you come across the court case?

  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    BASKET 5 IS O

    A young teen aged girl was a prostitute and, for obvious reasons, kept it a secret from her Grandma. One day, the police led by Officer Cardinal raided a brothel and arrested a group of prostitutes, including ...
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  • bisa 10 years ago

    Please can you show how the blank space can be analysed in mathematical and statistical modelling? The problem with some of you is that you are only being petty but in the long run you exhibit your ignorance and stupidity in ...
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  • Chabba 10 years ago

    Very good 'exegesis' on the number zero but will John Mahama and his NDC who are logically and mathematically challenged understand this common sense analysis? The image of Ghana and the economic conditions are sinking so fa ...
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  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    The writer is as genius as Dr. Bawumia. I think Kofi Yaro loosing it already. The space was supposed to have been filled. It is only a thief who will leave it blank because by filling in the blank, the truth is easily detecta ...
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  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    The writer is as genius as Dr. Bawumia. I think Kofi Yaro loosing it already. The space was supposed to have been filled. It is only a thief who will leave it blank because by filling in the blank, the truth is easily detecta ...
    read full comment

  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    The writer is as genius as Dr. Bawumia. I think Kofi Yaro loosing it already. The space was supposed to have been filled. It is only a thief who will leave it blank because by filling in the blank, the truth is easily detecta ...
    read full comment

  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    The writer is as genius as Dr. Bawumia. I think Kofi Yaro loosing it already. The space was supposed to have been filled. It is only a thief who will leave it blank because by filling in the blank, the truth is easily detecta ...
    read full comment

  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    The writer is as genius as Dr. Bawumia. I think Kofi Yaro loosing it already. The space was supposed to have been filled. It is only a thief who will leave it blank because by filling in the blank, the truth is easily detecta ...
    read full comment

  • Woman's wisdom 10 years ago

    The writer is as genius as Dr. Bawumia. I think Kofi Yaro loosing it already. The space was supposed to have been filled. It is only a thief who will leave it blank because by filling in the blank, the truth is easily detecta ...
    read full comment

  • Owusu Afriyie Alias - Sir John 10 years ago

    Thats why they wasting our time in court. Lost Cause indeed. What makes you think Nana Addo will be president you guys should be serious for a moment and lets have our peace of mind. Why!

  • SCHOOL LEAVER 10 years ago

    ALL THIS DISCUSSION IS NONSENSE. YOU CAN DEBATE IT IN THE CLASSROOM NOT IN THIS COURT AND YOU CAN ADD PYTHAGORUS THEOREM TO YOUR DISCUSSIONS.. BEWUMIAH IS STRUGGLING TO COME OUT OF A WEB OF COMPLICATED QUESTIONS AND SMART PEO ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    A man and his girlfriend are driving down the highway. The man asks “If I drive 100 mph will you take off your clothes?” and she agrees. So the man drives 100 mph and his girlfriend strips. The man is so busy looking at h ...
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  • MAT 10 years ago

    One day, Satan was out for a walk through Hell, making sure things were running smoothly. When he got to the Lake of Fire, he saw a man sitting by the lake, relaxing in a lawn chair, and not sweating or looking uncomfortable ...
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  • princewilly@ymail.com 10 years ago

    I LOVE YOUR JOKE.ARE THOSE LEAVES CASSAVA LEAVES OR COCOAYAM LEAVES?
    PLEASE YOU CAN TRY AND ASK KENNEDY OWUSU ANSAH OF ETOBIKOCE TO KEEP ME SOME.

  • BUFFALO POLICE,NEW YORK. 10 years ago

    Folks, the NPP and its shallow minded legal team has finally fallen into Tsatsu's trap. When lawyer Amedzeku filled his applications before the supreme court, NPP counsel lawyer Addison was first jumped to his feet and raised ...
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  • Mr. Who 10 years ago

    K Badu, you are very wrong in this your logical reasoning. blank can never mean zero. if you give a question to a student and the answer is zero and he leaves it blank will you mark him correct? eg, 10-10=0. if the student le ...
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  • wheel 10 years ago

    Thank you. If you are asked:What is 10+10, you could as well keep silent to mean zero.

  • John Anamse 10 years ago

    I admire you analogy.
    I Will love to write an exam conducted by Bawumia as I will leave my answers blank if I am not sure and could still get a mark in case the answer is a zero

  • Nii Ansah 10 years ago

    this is not an exam, it was an election and i i am sure some of the EC officials made some errors about this issue, 0 is a number ant it is nothing,a blank is also nothing, NPP should not take advantage of this errors by the ...
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  • Kwame Asante 10 years ago

    Great Article

  • G. K. Berko 10 years ago

    Whilst there seems to be an intrigue in the effort by Dr. Bawumia to outwit the Court with his blank=0 analytical antics, the practical common sense of intent in Law supersedes any calculus principle in this case.

    Dr. Bawu ...
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  • G. K. Berko 10 years ago

    I would like to clarify that it could be challenged technically that not all Null in C. S. is equal to Zero. In C language, for example, it may be easily accepted as such, but in others not so.

    Long Live Ghana!!!

  • JONES 10 years ago

    Yours is ambiguous.

  • koffi abbass 10 years ago

    bawumia,k badu n other fools will say blank= zero. but wise people will blank=12.
    i think about 50% of ghanaians are fools n again abt 50% are wise that is why there is too much confussion in gh. if u say or do stupid things ...
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  • G. K. Berko 10 years ago

    By the way, it is misleading by the author to assert 'NULL is equal to ZERO' in Computer Science. Not necessarily.

    Long Live Ghana!!!

  • koffi abbass 10 years ago

    pioto to vote since no(blank=zero)ballots were issued.infact after d verification of voters, they issued them bawumia n k badu's pioto to vote n since their piotos are not ballots it means no ballots were issued as blank is z ...
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  • JONES 10 years ago

    Why waste your time here? Why not go back to classroom? Given that you are unlettered?

  • koffi abbass 10 years ago

    i think u n ur bush parents need nana's free education. buulu