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[-] MxM111@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

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

[-] porkins@sh.itjust.works 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.

[-] ieightpi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I will take the world with clean knives any day.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

Lame.

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