Dixie - In Memoriam
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Okay nitwits... once more, we will open this topic up again. Let us clarify what exactly I have stated in the past, so that everyone is fully aware of what I said and what is being claimed I said, and how they differ dramatically.
Long ago, I made the casual comment that 1 couldn't be divided evenly by 3. Now, go get you a piece of scratch paper and work out the division problem yourself, if you have any doubts, but that is a true statement. Whenever you divide 1 into 3 parts, you are left with a remainder, forever and eternally, there will always be a remainder, it is never resolved. Since we can't use math that is unresolved, we presume the values to be equal after dividing the remainder so many times. Usually, we can divide to the nearest 100,000th, and that is close enough for any practical use we may have, although there are some things where a more accurate value is required, and we continue to divide this remainder until the remaining portion is insignificant to whatever we are applying the numbers to. We can divide a cake into three equal parts very easily, or a ruler, or a pie... in fact, we can divide anything into 3 equally perceived parts, and I have NEVER claimed otherwise. The ONLY claim I have ever made on this subject, is the FACT that 1 can't be divided equally by 3, it always produces a remainder.
Damo insists that I have said a fraction is "solely" a division problem, and I have NEVER made that statement. He correctly identifies a fraction as a "fractional representation" of a number, which is what I said... a fraction is NOT a number! Even Damo's third grade daughter should know, if you divide the numerator and denominator of a fraction, you get the actual numeric value of the fraction itself, it is, for all intents and purposes, a 'division problem' ...or as Damo stated another way... a "fractional representation" ...NOT a number!
From this argument, has spawned the silly and ridiculous notion that I have said 1/3 doesn't exist... that I have stated things can't be divided by three.... that other base math doesn't exist... and a host of other related absurdities. This is because it's what they do when they can't bring themselves to admit I am right about something. It just pains them too much to admit that, so they have to construct all of these ridiculous points I never made, and mock me over and over again. After they have repeated the lie dozens of times, people get to believing what they post... Dixie really must not believe in 1/3! But Dixie never said any such thing, never implied anything remotely close to that. It was just a simple observation of fact, that ONE can't be divided THREE times, without producing a remainder! I have repeatedly challenged the BRAINS here to give me the 3 equal values which can be added together to make 1, not the "fractional representations" and not another "division problem" but the actual numeric values I need to add together to get 1. So far, all they come up with is 1/3+1/3+1/3=1 ...which I haven't disputed.
Okay... which of you morons wants to kick off this sure to be a 2000 post thread, on this silly and ridiculous topic? Because, after all folks, debating whether 1 can be evenly divided by 3, is FAR more important for us to debate than what is currently happening in our country! Twisting Dixies words into absurd silliness is FAR more important than talking about things that effect us all as Americans. Before we can move on to debate Nationalized Health Care, the Economy, the Environment, Science, God, whatever...we must first settle this debate about 1/3, because THAT is something VERY important!
