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On 2011-10-05 15:15, acesover wrote: According to Zeno, never. An argument like that has its limits, however. |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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On 2011-10-05 16:59, Scott Cram wrote: :) I was asking Kevin, math-boy.
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The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts
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John, I found that article as D, all of the above. I am not that good at math, which should be obvious, but I love the concepts of it, the basic idea behind it-if that makes sense. The phrase "The meaning of 0.999… depends on our assumptions about how numbers behave." really meant a lot while reading his explanation.
And John, as you can see from my facebook, not everyone knows the answer-one of those who thinks not was a middle school principle in my city for 30+ years.... And, of course, a 16 year old got it right, first post...
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
"History will be kind to me, as I intend to write it"- Sir Winston Churchill |
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ClintonMagus Inner circle Southwestern Southeast 3997 Posts
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Q: Why does a nerd put ice cubes up his nose?
A: He's keeping his lunch cold. Q: Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas? A: Because Oct 31 = Dec 25!
Things are more like they are today than they've ever been before...
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts
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I don't get any of these jokes, none at all.
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
"History will be kind to me, as I intend to write it"- Sir Winston Churchill |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On 2011-10-05 15:15, acesover wrote: Kinda tough to decide after the distance gets down to something on the order of ten to the minus thirty of an inch. So forty seconds later you get ... ?
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On 2011-10-05 13:45, kcg5 wrote: Depends on what you'd call the difference. Is there no difference? An insignificant difference? Or in plain English, could you tell one from the other?
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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On 2011-10-05 20:59, kcg5 wrote: These are all good to know. I could tell that you were curious after the first couple of posts, but I wasn't sure what the article would mean to you. I'm pleased that found it interesting. It does make you wonder what kind of sense we can make of repeating decimals. What does it mean to add up an infinite number of things? (.9+.09+.009+.0009+...) As a long-time math teacher, I found that this question always fascinated some students. The powerful intuition is that they CAN'T be the same. Most are convinced by the argument I gave above. Some are not. Those that are still bothered the next day have the potential to become mathematicians. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts
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In law, there is the phrase "a distinction without a difference."
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2011-10-05 13:45, kcg5 wrote: Yes. |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts
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On 2011-10-05 15:15, acesover wrote: A really, really, really long time. (Really.) |
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acesover Special user I believe I have 821 Posts
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On 2011-10-05 22:42, S2000magician wrote: Now that is a good answer. I like that.
If I were to agree with you. Then we would both be wrong. As of Apr 5, 2015 10:26 pm I have 880 posts. Used to have over 1,000
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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-Why did the chicken cross the mobius strip?
-To get to the same side.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2889 Posts
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On 2011-10-05 21:30, ClintonMagus wrote: That last one was actually the reveal at the end of a "Black Widowers" episode Isaac Asimov wrote.
"...and if you're too afraid of goin' astray, you won't go anywhere." - Granny Weatherwax
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kcg5 Inner circle who wants four fried chickens and a coke 1868 Posts
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On 2011-10-15 23:59, critter wrote: Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the "other side"... See!!! The chicken, being smart, knew he would be killed-he wanted to make it to the "other side". Maybe he had laid his last egg, or his favorite show was cancelled.
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!!!!!
"History will be kind to me, as I intend to write it"- Sir Winston Churchill |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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I told my girlfriend that joke last night and ended up having to make a model to explain why it was funny.
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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