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Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
#41
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
(February 8, 2017 at 4:09 pm)HairyCyclist Wrote: I hate cake.

But... but...
nooooooooooooo! Our friendship embryo has been injured. I had your back at banana hate, but I don't know if I can work with cake hate. Any cake? You know you gotta help me out (yeaaaah-song ref).
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#42
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
(February 8, 2017 at 2:09 pm)TheRealJoeFish Wrote: Your problem is that you've not properly analogized mathematical concepts to the real world.  If you have a cake, and "don't do anything with it", that's not analogous to dividing by zero, that's analogous to dividing by 1.  That is, you had 1 cake... and you "cut it into one piece."  That's... 1/1 = 1.

So let's say you have a cake. You cut into three equal parts by dividing with 3, two equal parts by dividing with 2, 1 equal part by dividing with 1 and 0 equal part by dividing with 0, in other words -> doing absolutely nothing to the cake by dividing with 0...so he cake is still there..(1/0=1)
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#43
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
(February 8, 2017 at 11:44 pm)pool the great Wrote: So let's say you have a cake. You cut into three equal parts by dividing with 3,
Yup.

(February 8, 2017 at 11:44 pm)pool the great Wrote: two equal parts by dividing with 2,
Yup.

(February 8, 2017 at 11:44 pm)pool the great Wrote: 1 equal part by dividing with 1
Yup.

(February 8, 2017 at 11:44 pm)pool the great Wrote: and 0 equal part by dividing with 0,
NOPE.

(February 8, 2017 at 11:44 pm)pool the great Wrote: in other words doing absolutely nothing to the cake by dividing with 0...so he cake is still there..(1/0=1)

You cannot have zero equal parts of anything. The statement is nonsense. I think you know that. Dodgy
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#44
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
Okay. So I have a cake. I divide it among zero of my friends. So what do i have now? A whole cake with me(1/0=1)
Just like how when i have a cake(1) and I divide it among one of my friend and me(1/2) I have half a cake with me(1/2=.5)
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#45
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
(February 9, 2017 at 1:09 am)pool the great Wrote: Okay. So I have a cake.
Okay.

(February 9, 2017 at 1:09 am)pool the great Wrote: I divide it among zero of my friends.
So you do not divide it at all.

(February 9, 2017 at 1:09 am)pool the great Wrote: So what do i have now? A whole cake with me(1/0=1)
Just like how when i have a cake(1) and I divide it among one of my friend and me(1/2) I have half a cake with me(1/2=.5)

You have a whole cake. (1/1)

Why do you think you went from 1/0 by yourself, to increasing your divisor by two (1/2) for just one more division? In other words, why didn't you go from 1/0 to 1/1?

I honestly can't tell if you're just trolling here. So I'll just pretend to myself that you're not.
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#46
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
Just give me my damn cake.
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#47
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
My apologies for this post. I accidentally posted when I meant to save as draft.
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#48
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
When I divide my cake with myself(1/1) I get the whole cake(1/1=1).
When I divide my cake with no one(1/0) I still get the whole cake(1/0=1).

1/0 -> You're dividing the cake with absolutely nobody -> Still have the cake
1/1 -> You're dividing the cake for yourself -> Still have the cake
1/2 -> You're dividing the cake for yourself and your friend -> Have half the cake
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#49
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
(February 9, 2017 at 3:04 am)pool the great Wrote: When I divide my cake with no one(1/0) I still get the whole cake(1/0=1).

When you divide the cake with no one, you are not dividing the cake.

1/0 is undefined. Its limit approaches ±∞.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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#50
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
Hmm.

So when I divide the cake with no one I'm not dividing the cake but when I add the cake(1) with nothing(0) I'm adding the cake?(1+0=1)
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