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That explains it (files.mastodon.social)

submitted 11 months ago by Masimatutu@mander.xyz to c/mathhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] porkins@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

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.

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