Comments on: An Interesting Math Problem http://liquidparallax.com/2006/10/20/an-interesting-math-problem/ i am music, feel my waves. Mon, 07 May 2012 15:19:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: liquid parallax http://liquidparallax.com/2006/10/20/an-interesting-math-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-12 liquid parallax Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:29:49 +0000 http://liquidparallax.com/2006/10/20/an-interesting-math-problem/#comment-12 I don't know where you got that from hank. Your calculator rounds up for decimal place limitation, but actually dividing 3 by 2 by hand (long division shown below) will yield a repeating 6 after the decimal point infinitely.      0.66 3 / 2.000      18 |        20        18 |          20 ... sorry if that doesn't look like a division problem. Anyway, you subtract 18 from 20 and will always end up with a 2, then carry the zero and you are back to square one and add 6 after 6 after 6 after 6 after (you get the picture)... I don’t know where you got that from hank. Your calculator rounds up for decimal place limitation, but actually dividing 3 by 2 by hand (long division shown below) will yield a repeating 6 after the decimal point infinitely.

     0.66
3 / 2.000
     18 |
       20
       18 |
         20

… sorry if that doesn’t look like a division problem. Anyway, you subtract 18 from 20 and will always end up with a 2, then carry the zero and you are back to square one and add 6 after 6 after 6 after 6 after (you get the picture)…

]]> By: hank http://liquidparallax.com/2006/10/20/an-interesting-math-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-11 hank Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:00:49 +0000 http://liquidparallax.com/2006/10/20/an-interesting-math-problem/#comment-11 2/3 is not 0.666..... it is 0.666.......7 hence 2/3 + 1/3 = 1! 2/3 is not 0.666….. it is 0.666…….7 hence 2/3 + 1/3 = 1!

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