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What's the answer?
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#31
RE: What's the answer?
February 15, 2013 at 8:31 pm
(February 15, 2013 at 8:29 pm)catfish Wrote: I could have sworn the answer was pickles...

Pickles are the answer to everything, ev re thing!
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Is that like the sausages game?
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#32
RE: What's the answer?
February 15, 2013 at 8:34 pm
I'm afraid of asking what the sausages game is lest you all think I'm homophobic....

It's all good till someone drops their pants, then I'm outty.
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RE: What's the answer?
February 15, 2013 at 8:39 pm
(February 15, 2013 at 8:34 pm)catfish Wrote: I'm afraid of asking what the sausages game is lest you all think I'm homophobic....

It's all good till someone drops their pants, then I'm outty.
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0_o

The game never ended with full frontal nudity. You just have to answer every question you're asked with the word sausages.
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#34
RE: What's the answer?
February 15, 2013 at 8:40 pm
lol, ok, my mind was in the gutter (sausage taster)...
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#35
RE: What's the answer?
February 16, 2013 at 6:17 pm
(February 15, 2013 at 8:06 pm)ManMachine Wrote: I'm from the Bill Hicks school of Philosophy. If Christians don't like what I say, I'll let them forgive me. Everybody wins!

You lost the game.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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#36
RE: What's the answer?
February 21, 2013 at 7:17 am
(February 15, 2013 at 8:21 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: He didn't divide by zero...

(1-1)(1+1)/(1-1)

That's dividing by zero. Whether that's what he intended to mean or not is a different question.
Eh?

1-1 = 0.

Dividing by 1-1 is the same as dividing by zero. Just as dividing by 2 is the same as multiplying by 1/2 (or dividing by 8/4).
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#37
RE: What's the answer?
February 21, 2013 at 8:52 pm
(February 21, 2013 at 7:17 am)Tiberius Wrote:
(February 15, 2013 at 8:21 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: He didn't divide by zero...

(1-1)(1+1)/(1-1)

That's dividing by zero. Whether that's what he intended to mean or not is a different question.
Eh?

1-1 = 0.

Dividing by 1-1 is the same as dividing by zero. Just as dividing by 2 is the same as multiplying by 1/2 (or dividing by 8/4).

Note the pair of brackets I inserted in bold. They weren't originally there, meaning that in actuality it's x/1 which will equal something, then minus 1. Doing x/(1-1) is dividing x by zero.
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#38
RE: What's the answer?
February 22, 2013 at 1:58 am
Alright, hang on. I gotta do some calculations ...


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#39
RE: What's the answer?
February 22, 2013 at 5:21 am (This post was last modified: February 22, 2013 at 5:27 am by Tiberius.)
You would have a point, if you ignore the fact that he shows the entire calculation:

(1-1)(1+1)/1-1 = 1(1-1)/1-1
(1+1) = 1

You can only get to step 2 above if you take the 1-1 in parentheses. So yes, he was dividing by zero. He just wasn't writing it down properly.

Intent was very clear though.
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#40
RE: What's the answer?
February 27, 2013 at 10:52 am
(February 22, 2013 at 5:21 am)Tiberius Wrote: You would have a point, if you ignore the fact that he shows the entire calculation:

(1-1)(1+1)/1-1 = 1(1-1)/1-1
(1+1) = 1

You can only get to step 2 above if you take the 1-1 in parentheses. So yes, he was dividing by zero. He just wasn't writing it down properly.

Intent was very clear though.

Fair enough. As an engineering student though, I have to be a wanker about that sort of stuff. In an exam you get marked wrong for it.
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