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Division by 3 does not exist

Name: LordRiordan 2006-11-26 21:40

Think about it... how can you have 3 equal parts of an object? The decimate representation is impossible and one side always has to be bigger then the other. This is also why there is no such thing as 360 equal degrees in a circle as one degree has to be off by a little bit... There are no 360 numbers that will add up to 1 whole object either.

Name: Anonymous 2007-01-10 20:16

All of you guys are missing the point.  It's not the math that's wrong- it's YOU.  Humans haven't yet found a label precise enough for anything that can be divided into 3 equivalent sections.  Thus, 1/3= .3333.  An approximate label.  So according to our primitive labels, 3/3= 3(1/3)=3(.333)=.999=1
This is a stupid argument.

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