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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 1:08 pm
(February 8, 2017 at 12:58 pm)pool the great Wrote:
(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


Gotta call bullshit there.  Three year olds would never be able to wrap their head around that and it is a bit of a poser for human brains in general, but well worth the effort.
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 2:09 pm
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.
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 2:23 pm
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#34
RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 4:09 pm
I hate cake.
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 4:10 pm
I'm not allowed anymore.

Fucking blood sugar . . .
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 4:12 pm
(February 8, 2017 at 9:22 am)pool the great Wrote: Question 1. You have a plate. There is no cake in that plate. You cut the cake that isn't in that plate into two. What is in your plate now?

Question 2. You have a plate. There is a cake in that plate. You do absolutely nothing to that cake. What is in your plate now?

1) "I'm" delusional to think there's a cake when there isn't one.

2) Nothing interesting happens.
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 4:14 pm
I could fix some popcorn shrimp and tell myself it's cake . . . . .
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 8:20 pm
(February 8, 2017 at 12:22 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:
(February 8, 2017 at 12:21 pm)Vic Wrote: Oh no. Not this again.

It's okay. The cake is a lie.

Officially the cake is an alternative fact.
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 8:22 pm
1) Fuck maths.

2) No but really, fuck maths.
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RE: Are you into mathematics? Do you have any cake?
February 8, 2017 at 10:05 pm
(February 8, 2017 at 8:22 pm)Iroscato Wrote: 1) Fuck maths.

2) No but really, fuck maths.

Makes sense
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