Reminds me of the really heated argument I got into a friend of mine over 0.999... = 1.
It took SO LONG and SO MUCH SHOUTING to get through to him the SEVERAL ways in which he was wrong.
It was like:
"0.333333 repeating infinitely is a third, right?"
"Sure."
"0.666666 repeating infinitely is two thirds, right?"
"Sure, but, like--"
"SO 0.999999 repeating infinitely is three thirds, right?"
"It's not the same!"
"WHAT IS THREE THIRDS STEVE?"
"THIS IS SUCH BULLSHIT! YOU'RE TRYING TO TRICK ME!"
"THREE THIRDS IS EQUAL TO ONE, STEVE! THAT IS NOT A TRICK, THAT IS BASIC MATHEMATICS!"
I think the main reason he was so stubborn was because he's a B.Sc. Applied Computing student and I've got a B.A. in Anthropology, which means everything I say related to science is automatically wrong.
Captcha: last straw
Close to it, Cap, close to it...
It took SO LONG and SO MUCH SHOUTING to get through to him the SEVERAL ways in which he was wrong.
It was like:
"0.333333 repeating infinitely is a third, right?"
"Sure."
"0.666666 repeating infinitely is two thirds, right?"
"Sure, but, like--"
"SO 0.999999 repeating infinitely is three thirds, right?"
"It's not the same!"
"WHAT IS THREE THIRDS STEVE?"
"THIS IS SUCH BULLSHIT! YOU'RE TRYING TO TRICK ME!"
"THREE THIRDS IS EQUAL TO ONE, STEVE! THAT IS NOT A TRICK, THAT IS BASIC MATHEMATICS!"
I think the main reason he was so stubborn was because he's a B.Sc. Applied Computing student and I've got a B.A. in Anthropology, which means everything I say related to science is automatically wrong.
Captcha: last straw
Close to it, Cap, close to it...