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tinfoil
Dixie's point was that when dividing one whole unit into thirds, the math says there is a repeating decimal and thus the leftover portion produces a remainder which must be placed with one of the portions and it creates one portion that is larger than the other two. He therefore concluded there were no such thing as equal thirds
He wasn't wrong in a precise mathmatical sense, but our mathletes here at the site all ignored it and got silly with it. It was funny.
He was wrong and the mathletes proved it.
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