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Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?

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Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 11:44 pm (This post was last modified: February 8, 2017 at 11:44 pm by ErGingerbreadMandude.)
(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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Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?

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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake? - by c172 - February 8, 2017 at 10:58 am
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake? - by ErGingerbreadMandude - February 8, 2017 at 11:44 pm
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake? - by Sal - February 8, 2017 at 4:12 pm

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