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That explains it
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A small part of my soul dies everytime I see "I'm" used that way
Most folk'll never eat a skunk, but then again some folk'll
Fuck you too
You probably think you'll never feel bad for saying that, but one of these nights, staying up late, thinking about the things you said and done, you'll.
Like Cletus, the slack jawed yokel.
Some folk'll never lose a toe, but then again some folk'll...
Whats goin' on over here on this side?
Here's a Tom Scott video that explains why that doesn't work in English: https://youtu.be/CkZyZFa5qO0?si=TqDXKLcbMF_qfofG
As he said, it doesn't work in English ... until enough people does it that it becomes acceptable.
English is democratic
Yes it's.
No it'sn't
Most languages are
Any living language. Don't tell France though.
🤓
Because it’s not .333, it’s .333… or 1/3 and it’s not .999, it’s .999…, which is the same as 1 🫠. Primes and fractions are weird.
The fun thing is this is just a consequence of how we write numbers. If you used base 12 1/3 would be 0.4. Obviously 0.4 + 0.4 + 0.4 in base 12 is 1.0, so 3 x 0.4 = 1
What's even more fun is that things like 1/5 or 1/10 are recurring decimals in base 12.
You know, this explanation makes it make sense to me a lot more than most of the others I've ever gotten.
I don’t get it. Are you saying the knife is clean?
Yes. The knife is clean if we are cutting exact thirds. As one other user mentioned, base-10 doesn’t allow prime fractions to be conveyed cleanly, so we use repeating decimals to imply that it is a fraction.
Either we live in a world where .333 is correct or we live in a world where knives come out clean when cutting a cake. We can't have both
I will take the world with clean knives any day.
So that's a no on the infinite cake universe?
Lame.
It's a flaw in how we decribe our numbers
It's not even really a flaw. Just a property. In some sense we've lost the property of uniqueness of decimal representations of numbers that we had with other sets of numbers like integers. In another sense we gain alternate representations for our numbers that may be preferrable (for example 1=1.000... but also 1=0.999...).
Flaw is a bit harsh. Periodic, infinite decimals happen because the denominator is not a multiple of the prime factors of the base and thus will exist in any base.
Not in base infinity.
Infinity is not a number and even if you would use it as a base, you couldn't represent anything other than infinity in a meaningful way.
Infinity^0 is indeterminate and infinity^x with x>0 is exactly infinity.
Yes, I'm
What a strange language we've.
Did you watch tom scott's video on this?Its's really good.
Yes, I've.
OK, I've to go now.
I amn't.
Knowing that .999 repeating is equal to 1 is the math equivalent of finding out Santa isn't real.
Huh, I found out in second grade and didn't think too much about it.
This is actually a beautiful and concrete proof that 0.9... is equal to 1. Beautiful fuckery.
I hate this
That might be a good description of xeno's paradox
The main piece is what I'm calling all cakes that are not whole from now on
Edit - this got me thinking, once you've cut the first 0.333 piece and then you split the rest of the main piece in 2, who is the next side piece and who continues to hold the title of the main piece?
Main piece is the one that stays on the tray.
Which one is the power bottom?
Spelling, though? Not so much.
No dude, it's a math joke. MATH.
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