@Mercuri@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 1 month agoYes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2lemmy.worldimagemessage-square65fedilinkarrow-up1460arrow-down129file-text
arrow-up1431arrow-down1imageYes Google, 2/3 is TOTALLY the same as 1/2lemmy.world@Mercuri@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev • 1 month agomessage-square65fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink20•1 month ago(1/3) +(1/2)(1/3) = 1/2 Math checks out from this end.
minus-squareZagorathlinkfedilink28•1 month 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-squareladlinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 month 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-squareZagorathlinkfedilink1•1 month agoBasically, “X is one-third more than Y” means either X = (4/3) × Y or X = Y + 1/3. I’m fine with either interpretation. The problem is that with the values of X and Y in this example, neither interpretation produces a valid equation.
minus-square@jbrains@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink9•edit-21 month 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
Basically, “X is one-third more than Y” means either X = (4/3) × Y or X = Y + 1/3. I’m fine with either interpretation.
The problem is that with the values of X and Y in this example, neither interpretation produces a valid equation.
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.