I'm saying that your declaration of "One is not equally divided by three!" has been shown to be false
even on your own terms because I revealed to you an example where 1 unit of something can, in fact, be divided by 3 without remainders since that 1 unit (minutes) is defined to be equivalent to 60 of a lower unit (seconds).
Now stop pestering me with your "equal to .333... minutes?" question that doesn't have anything whatsoever to do with the fact that a valid counter example to your declaration has been given. You just want to derail the conversation by attempting to trick me into saying there are remainders. As I have already shown in my example, of course, there are no remainders.
Now answer my question from post #889, because as it is, you are contradicting yourself by stating earlier that 0.999... - 0.999... = 0.
moni moni bo boni fee fie fo foni MONI! (Sorry couldn't resist. You have such a playful m-m-moniker
)
I guess you've figured out by now that you're engaging some of the worst hacks to visit what purports to be informed discussion. I have most of the worst them on 'ignore' which filters the way the thread appears in my browser. It makes reading some of these exchanges rather funny, something like overhearing a phone conversation with someone arguing with, say, a senile person on the other end. Senile with an attitude, I should say.
Yeah you've stumped the chumps. Motor Daddy is somewhere among the most incorrigible of them, having devised a rather unique way of trolling the science threads with little or no checkmating by the mods.
Of course the reason that your example trumps all of his objections is that the conventional division of time into multiples of 60 already addresses the divisibility by 3 (as well as 2 and 5 and their multiples). He will get stuck on notation as fast as he gets tangled up in basic concepts. And man does that dude love to rail. Here he seems lost in the idea that division by 10 is magically somehow mo-bettah than dividing by any other number. If he had any clue that the decimal system is purely arbitrary, he'd realize that division by 3 would be just as matter-of-fact to him if he'd been raised in any of the cultures that used base-60 numbering as he seems to think division by 10 is, or whatever. (I think there is still an extant system that, when counting on their fingers, uses the three joints in each finger -- I forget how they treat the thumb -- to arrive at something like hexadecimal. Not sure really but obviously the primitive cultures would have had a chance to work out their own choices of a base.)
Anyhoo, you get my vote of confidence. What a nutty thread this is anyway. I didn't wade through the whole discussion but it sounds like it started off with some bad restatement of limits. Most folks won't agree that 1 = 0.999..., but rather, that the limit as (sum of 9 * 10[sup]
-i[/sup]), as
i goes from 1 to infinity,
approaches 1. The symbol should be an arrow rather than an equals sign. And I'm giving this in prose form for the benefit of our resident 6th graders. It's that absence of a concept of an asymptote that eludes the folks who never made it past 6th grade math. As I recall Motor Daddy once admitted to being in that group. Needless to say, he's running berserk with the loose treatment of this subject, clearly unaware of the meaning of the phrase
in the limit (among other things).
You wouldn't have any problem convincing me that 1/3 of a second is just as precise a statement of duration as 1/3 of a minute, or of an hour, but I suspect Motor Daddy will continue to spout more nonsense about it. But yours was a good example. Also interesting was Arfa Brane's mention of dividing a circle into three equal parts. Presumably Motor Daddy can divide 360 by 3 with ease and rest happy that it was equally divided. But try to teach him the meaning of radians and I suppose he will claim that the circle can not be divided equally.
From this kind of mental stumble-bummery he expects his readers to conclude that all of math (and science) is broken, which I presume is the world a few other perpetual 6th graders live in.
Notice how we can generate so many words out of the most elementary of concepts that are so concisely expressed in mathematical notation? Geez, at this rate the 6th graders won't get to 7th grade until they'e 90 years old. Someone better warn the old folks homes. They'd better not let their future residents see anything being counted out or divided up, or all hell will be breaking loose. Maybe by then insurance will cover injuries sustained during food fights. Who knows.
