re: Math weirdness: Infinite gold is not enough

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Now that I think of it, even if you could possibly see past the edge, there would be nothing to see because "seeing" is the reception of photons of light into your eye and......there ain't no photons out there!!!

So, it would simply be a black edge blacker than any black you can possibly imagine

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Actually there are suggestions that the universe could actually be older than we believe it to be simply because the light from those farther flung galaxies hasn't gotten to us yet. That's why whenever they talk about mapping or the size of the universe they qualify it with "observable".

Not sure about the manner of the conversation on it speeding up as it expands or slows and begins to contract. If the rate of expansion continues to increase at some point, yes, everything in the night sky will be black. If it starts to contract it would simply move from red shift to blue shift as those galaxies all started to come back at us (as opposed to heading away). We'd see everything.

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Dividing the number 10 by 3 is not equivalent to dividing a 10 lb gold bar into 3 equal parts. I didn't say the math was wrong.

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What you're failing to understand is that there are different ways to measure something other than pounds. Why cant we divide it into parts of equal length? Assuming constant density then the 10 pound gold bar would have 3 equal parts of 10/3 lbs each.

The only way a 10lb gold bar would not be divisible into 3 equal parts is if the exact number of atoms in that bar added up to a number not divisible by 3, but no one has made that argument.

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I mean, 1 dude said in no uncertain terms that you can divide 3 feet into 3 equal parts but not 1 yard

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SMDH

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You can't measure anything with absolute certainty, certainly not to infinite decimal places. So it can't be done, period. Sorry. The math is correct. The practice is impossible.

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Another asswipe trying way too hard to sound smart.

Yeah this is a problem with base 10 only. Calling 10 lbs "10 lbs" is arbitrary.

Tell you what, I'll create a new weight unit. 3 smorlocks = 10 pounds. There's no reason I can't do this. Each gets 1 smorlock of gold.




Ultimately, though OP is misguided and doesnt realize it, this thread is a good argument why the Imperial System is much better than Metric System. In everyday usage, 12's and 16's are much more divisible than 10.

Imperial was built from what was practical and useful. Metric was built from a slavish cultlike devotion to decimals and the number 10 during the French Revolution, where they just divided and multiplied these bases by 10 without a care for whether it was practical. Now if you're in high school in Europe you might grow from 1.76m to 1.88m, instead of growing 5 inches from 5'9" or 6'2". It just doesn't seem harder to understand because we're less familiar with it. It's dumb, in metric we've taken all human height and said it HAS to be on a scale of about 0 to 2 (or 0 to 20, or 0 to 200, etc). Why would you doo that?

Take a ruler and divide 1 foot into 3 equal parts. (4 inches) Now 2 feet in 3 parts. (8 inches). Now do meters instead (33.3333 cm or 66.66666 cm). It's a lot trickier.

This is why eggs and donuts and beer come in 12 instead of 10. Hard to divide 10 among 3 or 4 people.

So for everyday usage Imperial System is clearly better. But you might still say, yes even though the number 10 is completely arbitrary as a base and not very divisible compared to 12, the fact remains our number system is based in 10 because we happen to have 10 fingers. So for kids learning to convert and stuff adding and removing decimals is just easier. Well, kids are going to learn feet and inches and pounds a gallons and whatnot because it's just part of life. Using a military alphabet might solve problems of B, C. D, E etc all sounding similar but that's not actually a problem that needs a major overhaul. And for serious math, if you're a serious engineer, scientist doing using real world numbers, multiplying a number by 12 or 5,280 isn't fricking difficult to any degree whatsoever. Nor is converting between systems.

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A couple of the geniuses in this thread are gonna have trouble with that

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You simply can't account for that $1!!!!!

Solid puzzle

Took me a minute to realize the problem

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Dude, you're worse then a kid. You jump in a thread and it's immediately "no, no, wrong, wrong"

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But you ARE wrong

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and not once have shown or even tried to show how I'm wrong.

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The answers are all over in this thread, probably dozens of posts show the answer.