1 Divided By 3

You are bouncing back and forth. Earlier you said you’re cutting a pie in three equal pieces. Now you’re saying you’re not cutting a pie in three equal pieces but merely dividing 1 by 3.

But you’re the one who introduced us to your pie right at the start of this thread (your second post and your fifth post reveal it.) You are the one who keeps mentioning it.

Don’t you remember? You said the following on the previous page:

ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.p … 0#p2828775

Right after posting Roxette.

I stated in the title of the thread 1 divided by 3. Do you comprehend what that means? NO! NO YOU DON’T!

Where did you get the idea that a whole is never made of 3 pieces of the whole? :confused:

THREE blocks, ONE stack of blocks.

Where did you get the idea that a whole can be 3 equal pieces?

If I start with 1 whole, and I cut 3 equal parts, the parts are 33.333…%, and that means that the parts are not 3 equal parts, there is a 4th part missing! Are you really that stupid?

If you only want to talk about numbers, without any reference to pies, then you should only talk about numbers. Stop talking about motherfucking pies and their pieces. Be consistent and take responsibility for your actions. Right now, it looks like you’re cornered and looking for a way out. But there’s no way out. Me and obsrvr are blocking your way out (:

So there is no 1/3 of a pie in your world. Or for that matter there is no 1/2 of a pie, or 1/4 of a pie! Weird world you live in!

As soon as I stacked 3 equal blocks mate = one whole stack of 3 equal parts - “Duh!”

He’s giving you an example of a whole (a stack of three equally sized blocks) divided into three equal parts (three equally sized blocks.) That pretty much disproves your claim that 1 cannot be divided by 3. (Note that both of us agree with you that (\frac{1}{3} \neq 0.\dot3).)

So are you dividing 3 blocks into 3 parts or 1 stack into 3 parts?

If you are dividing 1 stack into 3 parts, the parts are 33.333…% of the stack, correct?

That’s succinct.

The whole is 1 whole stack, not 3 blocks. If you want to claim it’s 3 blocks, then it’s 300%/3=100% each part. We are not talking about 300%/3, we are talking about 100%/3.

NO.

How many percent is 1/3 of a dozen?

No. I am dividing ONE stack into 3 “stacks” (of one block each).

No. I told you before - if you try to describe it as “33.333…%” then you are not correct.

It would be “1/3” - 1 big stack divided into 3 equal small stacks is 1/3 big stack each.

The whole is BOTH one whole stack AND three blocks. They are equivalent expressions.

Either way, the volume of each block relative to the volume of the whole (the stack of three blocks) is NOT one hundred percent. The blocks are SMALLER than the entire stack, they are NOT the same size as the stack.

No, you are dividing 1 stack into 3 parts, which means each part is .333… of a stack.

1 is the quantity.
Stack is the unit!

There’s no percentage that can express that size.

1/3 is 1 part of 3
1 divided by 3 = .333…
.333… x 3 = .999… NOT 1.0

1 divided by 3 is NOT 0.333~.