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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 06:49 PM
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Poll question: True, False, or Meaningless? If 0/0 isn't equal to 25, then 0 is equal to 0.
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 06:53 PM
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1. Not going to catch me again
Last time I divided by 0, my paper burst into flames.

TlalocW
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 06:59 PM
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2. And when did you stop beating your spouse?
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 07:00 PM
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4. As a matter of fact, she really kicked my ass just yesterday.
She's much better at Scrabble than I am.


And that rule about allowing proper nouns is total bullshit, by the way!
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 06:59 PM
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3. Look, if your cash register is short, just fess up and pay the quarter.
Don't try to confuse your shift manager with crazed mathematical ramblings.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 07:11 PM
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5. mainly because half the people I was with believed it until I explained the situation to them
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flyingfysh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 07:40 PM
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6. Meaningless
0/0 is undefined. Learn some elementary mathematics.
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 08:40 PM
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11. There's a thread on this topic in the Science forum.
Edited on Fri Apr-16-10 08:41 PM by Boojatta
Could you use your knowledge of elementary mathematics to identify a specific error in the Original Post of that thread? If you can identify a specific error in the Original Post of that thread, then please post in that thread a description of at least one such error.
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-18-10 12:13 PM
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12. Here's a link to the thread in the Science forum:
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-14-10 08:13 PM
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7. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 07:12 AM
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9. I love Billy Preston!
I bought that record back in the ice age when it was first released. Now I have it on my iPod.
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snot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 01:42 AM
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8. I wanna change my vote to false.
Edited on Fri Apr-16-10 01:42 AM by snot
Seriously.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 11:47 AM
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10. True implies true has a truth value of true.
QED
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 07:27 PM
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13. Kick
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FBaggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-18-11 11:52 AM
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14. False.
It doesn't matter what 0/0 is, the fact that a thing isn't something else never demonstrates that it equals some particular value, unless you first posit that there are only two possibilities.

IOW, it may be true that 0=0, but not because 0/0 isn't 25.
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