Mercuri@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 8 hours agoYes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2lemmy.worldimagemessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1201arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up1187arrow-down1imageYes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2lemmy.worldMercuri@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 8 hours agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaresin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down2·7 hours ago(1/3) +(1/2)(1/3) = 1/2 Math checks out from this end.
minus-squareZagorath@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·6 hours ago“a half is one-third more than a third” should mean either 1/3 + 1/3 = 1/2 Or 1/3 + (1/3 × 1/3) = 1/2 Neither of which is true.
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·15 minutes agoI feel like ‘a half is one-third more than a third’ is ambiguous and same as in ‘X is N% more than Y’ one may use X or Y as 100% I’m sure that one interpretation is more common, but I don’t think that it is exclusively correct
minus-squarejbrains@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-26 hours ago1/3 more than 1/3 is 4/9. What you wrote is 1/2 more than 1/3, not 1/3 more of it.
(1/3) +(1/2)(1/3) = 1/2
Math checks out from this end.
“a half is one-third more than a third” should mean either
1/3 + 1/3 = 1/2
Or
1/3 + (1/3 × 1/3) = 1/2
Neither of which is true.
I feel like ‘a half is one-third more than a third’ is ambiguous and same as in ‘X is N% more than Y’ one may use X or Y as 100%
I’m sure that one interpretation is more common, but I don’t think that it is exclusively correct
1/3 more than 1/3 is 4/9. What you wrote is 1/2 more than 1/3, not 1/3 more of it.