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Post Post #16 (isolation #0) » Fri May 12, 2017 10:35 am

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Post Post #18 (isolation #1) » Fri May 12, 2017 10:37 am

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But more seriously, what is the length of the hypotenuse of a right angle triangle with 2 sides of length 1. Oh look, you can have irrational lengths.
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Post Post #27 (isolation #2) » Fri May 12, 2017 2:01 pm

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Alternatively, irrational just means the number can't be defined with fractions of whole numbers. It says nothing about geometric space.
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Post Post #47 (isolation #3) » Sun May 14, 2017 12:45 pm

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In post 45, eagerSnake wrote:
In post 43, Davsto wrote:poor sod
Lol because irrational distances don't make logical sense in the real world, only in the ideal mathematical world
no, they still make sense even in the real world.
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Post Post #60 (isolation #4) » Mon May 15, 2017 1:24 am

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Right, what who said is fine. I don't think that's what you meant though given that you specified irrational distances. Irrational distances make as much sense as any non-zero distance.
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Post Post #63 (isolation #5) » Mon May 15, 2017 1:28 am

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My statements aren't contradictory.
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Post Post #65 (isolation #6) » Mon May 15, 2017 1:38 am

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You have to assume that I'm talking with perfect precision and no context to take them as contradictory. It's obvious to me that no measured value is accurate in practice, irrational or rational. But the bases of this thread was you having a deep misunderstanding about irrational numbers that I feel you still possess. In my first statement what I was trying to get across was that there was no divide between irrational or rational numbers in that sense. I believe that was a reasonable way for me to read what you said given that you were still specifying irrational numbers. If it's not what you meant you could have stated as much, if not when I said it, now. Instead you are trying to shift blame onto me when no blame needs to even exist.
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Post Post #67 (isolation #7) » Mon May 15, 2017 1:54 am

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In post 52, eagerSnake wrote:just a rational approximation to whatever the real length is
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Post Post #80 (isolation #8) » Mon May 15, 2017 5:02 am

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Questioning things is fine. Questioning them only because they don't conform to your common sense isn't. That's the real trap Einstein fell into.
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Post Post #82 (isolation #9) » Mon May 15, 2017 5:08 am

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I mean, my common sense agrees with Einsteins when it comes to quantum mechanics so~.
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Post Post #93 (isolation #10) » Sun May 21, 2017 10:21 am

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In post 91, Charles510 wrote:Imagine the surface of a sphere. Go to any point on the sphere, but you will never reach the end. The sphere is finite but has no end, just like the universe.
Although not disproven, the hypersphere would need to be unbelievably large. space in the observable universe is effectively flat.
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