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That explains it (files.mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don’t get it. Are you saying the knife is clean?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I will take the world with clean knives any day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So that's a no on the infinite cake universe?

Lame.