Re: OT: CNN Democratic "Debate"--more on Friedman

marika wrote:
dsi1 wrote in message ...


I saw this on a bumper sticker recently:

"4 out of 3 persons don't understand fractions"

accck!

1 and 1/3, or 1.333 inifinitely repeating last digit.

I don't get the problem. No I guess I got the problem, I didn't get the
bumper sticker

mk5000



My auntie used to have a mk4000 - best juicer/extractor ever! Most people fall into that trap where they use fractions like 4/3s in calculations and believe that numbers like this exist as a physical reality. They do not. One cannot poll 4 out of 3 persons or have 4/3s of a pie although 3/4 would be easy... as pie. Are you a high speed electronic digital computer? You guys have no concept of the real world!



"I [g] wandered so aimless life filed with sin / I [c] wouldnt let my
dear saviour [g] in
Then jesus came like a stranger in the night / Praise the lord [d7] I
saw the [g]light."--"I saw the light"
hank williams sr.



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