To: RoosterRedux; Cboldt
The problem started when 1/3 and 2/3 (portions) were “equated” with 0.333.. and 0.666.. (decimal values).
Further discussion was only intended to strengthen the initial error; hence, arrested development.
Now, mind you, I took Cboldt’s math exercise to be a bit of “funnin’” us. I thought it quite amusing (plus, I’d seen it before).
422 posted on
03/12/2018 4:39:34 PM PDT by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
I majored in math modeling and haven't found the error in Cboldts exercise.
It expands the problem when it should reduce it, but still, logic is logic.
Can you pinpoint the error in it?
424 posted on
03/12/2018 4:43:52 PM PDT by
RoosterRedux
(Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.)
To: Cletus.D.Yokel
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I took Cboldt's math exercise to be a bit of "funnin'" us. --
I was inspired by the "zero times a nickle" story. If zero times a nickle is a nickle, then 3=4.
425 posted on
03/12/2018 4:45:30 PM PDT by
Cboldt
To: Cletus.D.Yokel; Cboldt; RoosterRedux
428 posted on
03/12/2018 4:49:12 PM PDT by
bagster
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