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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

then how is 1/3+2/3=1 if 1/3=.333.... and 2/3=.666....?


367 posted on 03/12/2018 3:03:20 PM PDT by reed13k
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To: reed13k

Y’all making my head hurt.


371 posted on 03/12/2018 3:07:51 PM PDT by HoneysuckleTN (Back where the woodbine twineth via Q... || President Trump 2020 KAG! :) MAGA!)
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To: reed13k

Think portions and ratios; not “guzzintahs” (Hillbillies reference)


397 posted on 03/12/2018 3:51:03 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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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: reed13k
then how is ⅓+⅔=1 if ⅓=.333.... and 2/3=.666....?

Because you are working with Base 10 math. You need to be working with another Base Math to see it can work out correctly. Try Base 12.

884 posted on 03/13/2018 12:45:17 PM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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