sixteen dimensions in science?

Somewhere in Tamil nadu, India, a teacher was teaching mathematics in the middle of the afternoon under the shade of a tree. His words were somewhat like this" If zero is added to any number, the result is the number itself; if zero is subtracted from any number, the result is the number itself; if zero is multiplied by any number, the result is zero; if zero is divided by any number, the result is zero".

Just then, one of his students raised his hands and the teacher motioned him to proceed with his doubts. This little boy, hardly ten years old asked a very challenging doubt to his guru.

Student: " Sir, so what will happen if we multiply zero by a zero?"

Teacher: " The result will obviously be zero"

Student: " And what will happen when zero is divided by zero?"

The teacher paused for a while and giggles started from amongst the students. But none of them knew that they were laughing at a true genius who could soon be enlightening the world with his wisdom. I dont know what answer guruji told his student nor do I know whether he was punished for asking the doubt. But I certainly know who that industrious pupil was. It was none other than Sreenivasa Ramanuja, the reknowned Indian Mathematician who was one of the master brains behind modern algebra.

Ramanuja didn't give equations using variables. His equations rather consisted of constant numbers.eg: (a+b)x(a-b)=a^2-b^2 was written as 10x6=64-4.

Ramanuja was such a genius that he was able to understand 16 dimensions in science, of which only 4 or five dimensions are said to be proved to exist by researchers and the rest of his works are still studied!