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Thursday 16 October 2014

"There's no such thing as rational numbers !", declares moron

I appear to have encountered someone who does not believe in rational numbers...

" You are following non-division able mathematics as 2 cannot be properly divided by 3 and answer will be got 0.6666666666666…………….. no ending solution. We need solution and accept the answer as 0.66. You should be practical. "
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5 comments:

  1. Christopher Cooke16 October 2014 at 14:55

    Wait, what?

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  2. Rhys Taylor16 October 2014 at 15:06

    Summary of the story thus far :
    http://astrorhysy.blogspot.cz/2014/08/seven-million-years-bad-luck.html

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  3. Bryan Rombough16 October 2014 at 15:07

    My sympathies.  I've seen people get freaked out by the idea of repeating decimals myself, specifically 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3 expressed as decimals.  I've seen people argue 'till they were blue in the face that 3/3 cannot equal 1 because there must be a difference between 0.9repeating and 1.

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  4. Fred Beckhusen16 October 2014 at 18:17

    I believe in Jethro numbers. From the Beverly Hillbillies: "What comes after elventy eight, Jethro?" "Eleventy nine, Pa!"

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  5. Fred Beckhusen16 October 2014 at 20:20

    Wonder what he thinks about computer code that says A = A + 1

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