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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 12:32 pm
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(February 8, 2017 at 12:27 pm)pool the great Wrote: I have a cake(1) and I cut it in half(1/2) now i have half of cake.
No, you have -2- halves of a cake.......that's definitional to the concept of a half, you realize....?
Quote:I have a cake(1) and I cut it into absolutely nothing (1/0) now i have a cake. (1/0=1)
You mean you did no operation whatsoever? Well, ofc...if you start with a quantity, and do no operation...you still have the same quantity......
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 12:32 pm
(February 8, 2017 at 12:27 pm)pool the great Wrote: I have a cake(1) and I cut it in half(1/2) now i have half of cake.
I have a cake(1) and I cut it into absolutely nothing (1/0) now i have a cake. (1/0=1) You should make a video of yourself cutting something into nothing. It would go viral like the girl who smooshes her face into bread.
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 12:36 pm
Okay. So let me get this straight.
It doesn't make sense to not cut a cake(1/0) but it makes sense to cut a non existent cake(0/1)?
You cut a non existent cake into two and you are left with no cake, well you had no cake to begin with anyway.
Similarly, you cut a cake into absoluetly nothing and you're left with your whole cake. (1/0=1)
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 12:39 pm
Can't answer. There's never any cake in a plate. Do you mean on the plate?
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 12:44 pm
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(February 8, 2017 at 12:32 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: (February 8, 2017 at 12:27 pm)pool the great Wrote: I have a cake(1) and I cut it in half(1/2) now i have half of cake.
I have a cake(1) and I cut it into absolutely nothing (1/0) now i have a cake. (1/0=1) You should make a video of yourself cutting something into nothing. It would go viral like the girl who smooshes her face into bread.
Oh yeah? Well you make a video of yourself cutting a non existent cake into two(0/2)! Let's see.
(February 8, 2017 at 12:39 pm)Shell B Wrote: Can't answer. There's never any cake in a plate. Do you mean on the plate?
Yes, yes.
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 12:48 pm
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(February 8, 2017 at 12:36 pm)pool the great Wrote: Okay. So let me get this straight.
It doesn't make sense to not cut a cake(1/0) but it makes sense to cut a non existent cake(0/1)?
You cut a non existent cake into two and you are left with no cake, well you had no cake to begin with anyway.
Similarly, you cut a cake into absoluetly nothing and you're left with your whole cake. (1/0=1)
No, it just makes sense to talk about dividing a zero quantity of cake x ways. If you've got no cake, everyone goes hungry (gets no cake).
But you can't make good sense of dividing anything no ways at all - except as Steel showed if you mean you leave it intact, which is division by 1, not 0.
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 12:51 pm
Right, the divisor is not how many cuts you make, it's how many pieces you want when the cutting is done.
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 12:55 pm
1. Nothing or schizophrenia.
2.Whatever was there to begin with. (Presumably a whole cake)
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 12:55 pm
Hey, Pool, are you just playing devils advocate here are you really wrestling with it? Good for you either way.
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 12:58 pm
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(February 8, 2017 at 12:55 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Hey, Pool, are you just playing devils advocate here are you really wrestling with it? Good for you either way.
I'm actually having a hard time wrapping my head around something as simple as this which a 3 year old won't have trouble with lol
(February 8, 2017 at 12:55 pm)Shell B Wrote: 1. Nothing or schizophrenia.
2.Whatever was there to begin with. (Presumably a whole cake)
Yeah, exactly. 
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