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If I start doing fractions I'll have to lose digits.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Mike Hankey wrote: and so til I run out a fingers and toes. an teef.
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Representing numbers without using numbers.
3 - tree
33 - Dirty Tree
33,3 - Dirty tree and a turd.
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Mike Hankey wrote: 2 guxinto 4 ... 2 times
3 guzinto 9 ... 3 times
Following that pattern, I think you just ran out of letters!
Marc
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TRUE MATH
Try to prove it...
1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ... (and goes for the infinity) = 1/2
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Curious and grandi'ous at the same time
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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If I remember correctly, it has something to do with the way that sums/series work when dealing with infinities. I don't remember exactly how it reduces, but I remember my mind being moderately blown the first time it was explained to me.
Now, my attempt, as I think about right now, would be to reduce it to an infinite series of the sum of one minus one:
(1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + ....
Which would of course reduce to 0 + 0 + 0 + ... = 0...
I know this is wrong (because I've not correctly applied whatever rule leads to the 1/2 answer,) but from a straightforward idiot's logic approach, it makes sense.
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Let S = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1... , then 1 - S = 1 - (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1...) . This simplifies to 1 - S = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1... . This means 1 - S = S which is simplified to 1 = 2S and finally S = 1/2 .
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Or
S = (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + ... = 0
S = 1 - (1 - 1) - (1 - 1) - ... = 1
2S = 1
S = 1/2
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The traditional - and entirely wrong - approach is:
G = 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + ...
1 - G = 1 - (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + ...)
= 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ...
= G
1 = 2G
1 / 2 = G
The correct answer is that the series doesn't have a sum in any meaningful sense.
Or, for the quantum-minded, the sum is both 0 and 1 at the same time.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Quote: is not for sale Ya, thanks indeed!
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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"This is not an actual product and is not for sale".
Whereas they're all over Amazon and you can actually buy them.
"Thanks" indeed.
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1+1=3 for larger values of 1.
I'd rather be phishing!
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What the math is going on around here?
It's not Pi Day, after all.
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You guy making Math great again.
Bryian Tan
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One Equals Zero! -- Math Fun Facts[^]
Repost of sorts but on topic.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Just like 0/0 = 2
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Never has your signature been more apt!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Quote: Dividing by (x-y), obtain ...
... an "out of cheese" error.
(Or a DivideByZeroException if you've not got an Anthill inside[^].)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I don't know where the documentation writers at MSDN went to school, but I always learned that 1/3 is 0.3333... not 0.9999...
See the code example here[^]
//edit
Nevermind. I can't read. Thanks, @Lopatir
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