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To: reed13k
What is wrong with you.

Do you not understand fractions.

If I am off base...forgive me.

399 posted on 03/12/2018 3:54:11 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.)
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To: RoosterRedux

See my post 397.

You are, of course correct. 1/3 </> to 0.3333...
1/3 is a fraction (portion) of a whole, the ratio being 1:3 and 2:3 (one-of-three and two-of-three), making a whole three-of-three).
I think I learned ratio in 3rd grade (or was that 0.333333333 grade?)


401 posted on 03/12/2018 4:00:03 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I understand fractions very well - they are a ratio. Divide 1 by 3 you get .33333.... to infinity it never ends. Same with 2 by 3. add the decimals and you get .999... to infinity.

It’s a mathematical idiosyncrasy - a thought problem that makes perfect logical sense but shouldn’t be. Yet a provable fact using basic mathematics.


437 posted on 03/12/2018 5:04:11 PM PDT by reed13k
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