Masimatutu@mander.xyz to Math Humor@lemmy.ml · 11 months agoThat explains itfiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1655arrow-down139
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minus-squareporkins@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up12·11 months agoYes. 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.
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.