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minus-squareMxM111@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·8 months agoI don’t get it. Are you saying the knife is clean?
minus-squareporkins@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 months agoYes. The knife is clean if we are cutting exact thirds. As one other user mentioned, base-10 doesn’t allow prime fractions to be conveyed cleanly, so we use repeating decimals to imply that it is a fraction.
minus-squareieightpi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·8 months agoEither we live in a world where .333 is correct or we live in a world where knives come out clean when cutting a cake. We can’t have both
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoI will take the world with clean knives any day.
minus-squareRizzRustbolt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoSo that’s a no on the infinite cake universe? Lame.
I don’t get it. Are you saying the knife is clean?
Yes. The knife is clean if we are cutting exact thirds. As one other user mentioned, base-10 doesn’t allow prime fractions to be conveyed cleanly, so we use repeating decimals to imply that it is a fraction.
Either we live in a world where .333 is correct or we live in a world where knives come out clean when cutting a cake. We can’t have both
I will take the world with clean knives any day.
So that’s a no on the infinite cake universe?
Lame.