Damo and Water need Schooling Again on 1/3

Dixie said:
I've answered this before... A "foot" is a unit of measure originally derived from the length of the human foot. Yes, rulers like cakes, pies, clovers, and everything else in the world, can be divided into three parts, I have not disputed this. We are talking about precise equality of the 3 parts of a whole. A foot is not precise measurement, it is as close to precise as humans need it to be, when building something, or when measuring something's length, width, and depth. If you cut the foot-long ruler into 3 parts at 4" each, you will have three seemingly equal parts. Can you guarantee that the three parts contain the exact same number of molecules? Unless you can, and show me where you have proven this conclusively, you have not divided the ruler into three precisely equal parts. Yes, they are all equal to 4" each, and together they equal a foot. If the ruler could be divided precisely, you could give me the actual percentage of each of the equal parts... why don't you do that for me... tell us what % of the whole ruler, each 4" piece represents? Go for it!
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Okay, so what's it going to be. Either you can divide a foot into 3 equal parts (which you've claimed in the opening post to have never opposed) or you can't, which in the previous post you claimed.

Are we to believe the opening post, or the previous post, because no matter what, being equal and not being equal are not the same thing.

So, which one?
 
Now we're down to molecules. 4 inches times three can't equal a foot because of molecules.

Pathetic.
 
Beefy said:
Okay, so what's it going to be. Either you can divide a foot into 3 equal parts (which you've claimed in the opening post to have never opposed) or you can't, which in the previous post you claimed.

Are we to believe the opening post, or the previous post, because no matter what, being equal and not being equal are not the same thing.

So, which one?
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Define what you mean by "equal parts" ?

Do you mean equal parts of 4 inches each... sure, I have never disputed this!
 
Beefy said:
What percentage of a foot is 4 inches?
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We assume it is 33.333e% but "e" is not resolved, we assume it is, because the value of "e" is irrelevant to "inches" being used to define measurement in this case. In other words, the three parts are not exactly equal, but it doesn't matter, and it doesn't alter the integrity of the measurement. Our perception is equality, based on our defined unit of measure (inches) and this is how we often resolve the remainder. As I said, in more complicated calculations, like if we were sending a rocket to the moon and had to plot trajectories and stuff, we may need more precise measure than a ruler with ink markings every inch. In fact, we may need to utilize a complicated calculus formula to obtain a satisfactory resolve for the remainder, but we have figured out how to do that. It's never a problem, it's never an issue... except here, amongst the ignorance of pinheads who stubbornly wish to be obtuse and disagree with Dixie, because they have their asses on their shoulders and can't admit he is right about anything, even simple math!
 
Dixie said:
We assume it is 33.333e% but "e" is not resolved, we assume it is, because the value of "e" is irrelevant to "inches" being used to define measurement in this case. In other words, the three parts are not exactly equal, but it doesn't matter, and it doesn't alter the integrity of the measurement. Our perception is equality, based on our defined unit of measure (inches) and this is how we often resolve the remainder. As I said, in more complicated calculations, like if we were sending a rocket to the moon and had to plot trajectories and stuff, we may need more precise measure than a ruler with ink markings every inch. In fact, we may need to utilize a complicated calculus formula to obtain a satisfactory resolve for the remainder, but we have figured out how to do that. It's never a problem, it's never an issue... except here, amongst the ignorance of pinheads who stubbornly wish to be obtuse and disagree with Dixie, because they have their asses on their shoulders and can't admit he is right about anything, even simple math!
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Dixie, it is because you are so adament on your stance, no matter how many times you are proven wrong, that people keep bringing this up. You'll never admit that something can be divided into three equal parts. You went into some speil about molecules and percentages when shown something that is one foot long can be seperated into 3 equal parts. You said it can't be divided into three equal parts because it can't be represented by a percentage. This is where I just have to laugh at you now.

Originally, I got what you were trying to say, but I figured it was just a lack of understanding that kept you from getting it. But after you've been shown you don't understand base numbering systems and claim that something can't be divided equally because it can't be represented by an equal percentage, it either proves you are just plain stupid, or you are just plain stubborn. Either way, we can all laugh at you.
 
DigitalDave said:
Dixie, it is because you are so adament on your stance, no matter how many times you are proven wrong, that people keep bringing this up. You'll never admit that something can be divided into three equal parts. You went into some speil about molecules and percentages when shown something that is one foot long can be seperated into 3 equal parts. You said it can't be divided into three equal parts because it can't be represented by a percentage. This is where I just have to laugh at you now.

Originally, I got what you were trying to say, but I figured it was just a lack of understanding that kept you from getting it. But after you've been shown you don't understand base numbering systems and claim that something can't be divided equally because it can't be represented by an equal percentage, it either proves you are just plain stupid, or you are just plain stubborn. Either way, we can all laugh at you.
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actually dave.....dixie brought this up, he resurrected the issue after it had been dormant for some time....see the OP....which is highly ironic as dixie has profusely complained in the past about others who keep bringing it up....
 
DigitalDave said:
Dixie, it is because you are so adament on your stance, no matter how many times you are proven wrong, that people keep bringing this up. You'll never admit that something can be divided into three equal parts. You went into some speil about molecules and percentages when shown something that is one foot long can be seperated into 3 equal parts. You said it can't be divided into three equal parts because it can't be represented by a percentage. This is where I just have to laugh at you now.

Originally, I got what you were trying to say, but I figured it was just a lack of understanding that kept you from getting it. But after you've been shown you don't understand base numbering systems and claim that something can't be divided equally because it can't be represented by an equal percentage, it either proves you are just plain stupid, or you are just plain stubborn. Either way, we can all laugh at you.
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You can laugh all you like, if you can't represent the division by equal percentage, you can't divide it equally! You can ASSUME it is equal, which is what we do! I've not disputed that we perceive all three parts to be equal, I have stated thousands of times now, we can divide anything into thirds and perceive them to be equal, consider them equal, call them equal, and insist they are equal. I have also said, thousands of times now, that whatever the remainder is, eventually becomes insignificant enough, it doesn't affect our perception of equal.

I have not been "shown" a goddamn thing, I have not been proven wrong on this, and you can't prove me wrong because this is math, and it doesn't depend on what your opinions are. Stringy even tried to claim that math doesn't "do well" with 1/3... as if math has the ability to "do well" or "do poorly" depending on what it encounters! Now, if anyone is going to be made fun of for what they have said, that would be the thing to do it with!

All I said was, 1 can't be divided by 3 without producing a remainder, therefore it can't be equally divided. Unless you can rectify the remainder, unless you can give me a set of 3 completely defined values which are all equal, and together equal 1 exactly, you can't prove this wrong. .333e is undefined because we do not know the value of "e" because we can't count to eternity. At some point in the division, we simply say... eh fuck it, close enough... and we CALL it even! But at that point, one of the three parts assumes the remainder, a very small and insignificant remaining part the other two do not have. Now how in the hell can one part have a small part the others don't, and they are all still equal? Human perception of equal, that's how.

So we have equal, and we have our perception of equal, and they are sometimes not the same thing. If I said; ALL MEN ARE NOT EQUAL! What would you say? According to our Constitution and rule of law, all men ARE equal. We presume that all men are equal, but are all men really equal? Do some men have more physical strength, do some men have more intelligence? Do some men have bigger dicks? Men are certainly NOT equal, that is a true statement, but we perceive men to be equal. The same applies to 1/3 of 1, we presume all three parts are equal, even though one part HAS to include the ever-elusive remainder.
 
Yurt said:
actually dave.....dixie brought this up, he resurrected the issue after it had been dormant for some time....see the OP....which is highly ironic as dixie has profusely complained in the past about others who keep bringing it up....
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I don't know what planet you are living on, or what message board you've been reading, but I see someone post something about 1/3 almost every day, in almost every thread I post in. It has not only become some running joke here, it has morphed into all sorts of absurdities I never said.

At this point, there have been dozens of threads and over 5,000 posts in total, devoted to this silly and ridiculous argument. When I first posted it, I admittedly was only trying to see how long pinheads would argue the absurd. How long could they keep insisting that 1 can be divided equally by 3, when it produces a remainder? I had no idea it was going to turn into this, and along the way, non-pnheads would also join in the debate! Everybody lining up to bash Dixie and tell him how stupid he is, but not one person has yet to show three definitive values which equal 100% of the whole. You can laugh at me, you can mock me, you can keep bringing this up every time you see my posts... I don't really care, I don't post things so people will like me and kiss my ass... that's Grind's gig!
 
Dixie said:
I don't know what planet you are living on, or what message board you've been reading, but I see someone post something about 1/3 almost every day, in almost every thread I post in. It has not only become some running joke here, it has morphed into all sorts of absurdities I never said.

At this point, there have been dozens of threads and over 5,000 posts in total, devoted to this silly and ridiculous argument. When I first posted it, I admittedly was only trying to see how long pinheads would argue the absurd. How long could they keep insisting that 1 can be divided equally by 3, when it produces a remainder? I had no idea it was going to turn into this, and along the way, non-pnheads would also join in the debate! Everybody lining up to bash Dixie and tell him how stupid he is, but not one person has yet to show three definitive values which equal 100% of the whole. You can laugh at me, you can mock me, you can keep bringing this up every time you see my posts... I don't really care, I don't post things so people will like me and kiss my ass... that's Grind's gig!
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yeah...this thread really helped the 1/3 issue die dixie.....

congratulations :clink:
 
Dixie said:
You can laugh all you like, if you can't represent the division by equal percentage, you can't divide it equally! You can ASSUME it is equal, which is what we do! I've not disputed that we perceive all three parts to be equal, I have stated thousands of times now, we can divide anything into thirds and perceive them to be equal, consider them equal, call them equal, and insist they are equal. I have also said, thousands of times now, that whatever the remainder is, eventually becomes insignificant enough, it doesn't affect our perception of equal.

I have not been "shown" a goddamn thing, I have not been proven wrong on this, and you can't prove me wrong because this is math, and it doesn't depend on what your opinions are. Stringy even tried to claim that math doesn't "do well" with 1/3... as if math has the ability to "do well" or "do poorly" depending on what it encounters! Now, if anyone is going to be made fun of for what they have said, that would be the thing to do it with!

All I said was, 1 can't be divided by 3 without producing a remainder, therefore it can't be equally divided. Unless you can rectify the remainder, unless you can give me a set of 3 completely defined values which are all equal, and together equal 1 exactly, you can't prove this wrong. .333e is undefined because we do not know the value of "e" because we can't count to eternity. At some point in the division, we simply say... eh fuck it, close enough... and we CALL it even! But at that point, one of the three parts assumes the remainder, a very small and insignificant remaining part the other two do not have. Now how in the hell can one part have a small part the others don't, and they are all still equal? Human perception of equal, that's how.

So we have equal, and we have our perception of equal, and they are sometimes not the same thing. If I said; ALL MEN ARE NOT EQUAL! What would you say? According to our Constitution and rule of law, all men ARE equal. We presume that all men are equal, but are all men really equal? Do some men have more physical strength, do some men have more intelligence? Do some men have bigger dicks? Men are certainly NOT equal, that is a true statement, but we perceive men to be equal. The same applies to 1/3 of 1, we presume all three parts are equal, even though one part HAS to include the ever-elusive remainder.
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The EQUAL percentage is written as 33 1/3%

You unbelievably ignorant moron.
 
Dixie said:
I don't know what planet you are living on, or what message board you've been reading, but I see someone post something about 1/3 almost every day, in almost every thread I post in. It has not only become some running joke here, it has morphed into all sorts of absurdities I never said.

At this point, there have been dozens of threads and over 5,000 posts in total, devoted to this silly and ridiculous argument. When I first posted it, I admittedly was only trying to see how long pinheads would argue the absurd. How long could they keep insisting that 1 can be divided equally by 3, when it produces a remainder? I had no idea it was going to turn into this, and along the way, non-pnheads would also join in the debate! Everybody lining up to bash Dixie and tell him how stupid he is, but not one person has yet to show three definitive values which equal 100% of the whole. You can laugh at me, you can mock me, you can keep bringing this up every time you see my posts... I don't really care, I don't post things so people will like me and kiss my ass... that's Grind's gig!
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Well dear ditzie, that depends on how long you continue with your foolishness. EVERYONE here is in agreement against your idiocy. Not ONE single person is on your side in this. Yet in your fantasy world this means that everyone else is being stubborn and wrong. In never enters that tiny little mind of yours that it is YOU that is wrong.

Countless times you pretend that the only way to write a percentage is by using decimals. It is not.

1/3 + 1/3 +1/3 is EXACTLY EQUAL TO ONE. There are NO remainders. It is in your idiotic insistance to write 1/3 in decimal form that is screwing with your tiny little mind.

THAT is why everyone is laughing at you. THAT is why you continue to get mocked for this.
 
Dixie said:
We assume it is 33.333e% but "e" is not resolved, we assume it is, because the value of "e" is irrelevant to "inches" being used to define measurement in this case. In other words, the three parts are not exactly equal, but it doesn't matter, and it doesn't alter the integrity of the measurement. Our perception is equality, based on our defined unit of measure (inches) and this is how we often resolve the remainder. As I said, in more complicated calculations, like if we were sending a rocket to the moon and had to plot trajectories and stuff, we may need more precise measure than a ruler with ink markings every inch. In fact, we may need to utilize a complicated calculus formula to obtain a satisfactory resolve for the remainder, but we have figured out how to do that. It's never a problem, it's never an issue... except here, amongst the ignorance of pinheads who stubbornly wish to be obtuse and disagree with Dixie, because they have their asses on their shoulders and can't admit he is right about anything, even simple math!
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And when we need a complicated formula utilizing 1/3, we merely multiply the numerators together and the divisors together. We don't manually divide 1/3 out to the 1 millionth decimal (doing a redundant and trivial task over and over again) and multiply by that or whatever.

Trying to reduce things to decimals can present accuracy problems if you kept it as a decimal, but where you know the decimal involves a repeating decimal you just use the fraction instead and multiply by the decimal.
 
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