You'd have to ask Dixie. You could probably find it on the site.
Top Democratic contenders have no chief executive experience among them
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Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
Did the 1/3 debate make its way over to here? I know someone used to have the link to it (Grind, I believe) in their signiture tag on FP.com.
Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
I'm not sure if its the original, but here's the link to the Math Riddle thread...
http://www.fullpolitics.com/viewthread.php?tid=141#pid484974
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With a bar over the last digit, showing continuation.
Somebody thought that because it is not a whole number, that it does not exist?
Hmmm--liberial public school educated?
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DamnYankee
Loyal to the end
Sounds like BS to me. What about pi, or complex numbers?
DamnYankee
Loyal to the end
I don't think so. I used to work with some older guys (thay would be in thier 70's now) that use to round numbers oddly. It centered around the issue of number 5, for example, should 0.45 would be rounded to 0.4 or 0.5? The theory was that there was only 4 decimals below 5 (1, 2, 3, and 4), and 4 above (6, 7, 8, and 9), therefore you had to round up sometimes and down other times, in order to "even out" any error. Oh they had all kinds of little rules, such as round up when the number to the left is even, otherwise round down, and so forth. We went over this for months, my telling them that they were wrong, and one bloke who checked my work would even "correct" my "mistakes", which of course, I would then change back.
I was finally able to convince these guys that they were wrong by pointing out that there were in fact 5 decimals below 5 and only 4 above, because, lke the Romans, they neglected to include zero.
Then I ran into some older guy who had emmigrated from Europe somewhere and his method was to simply lop off the last decimal. He had some cockamaymee theory to explain it but it made "zero" sense to me.a
