Originally Posted by
WinterBorn
Damo, you need to save this thread.
Dixie would be so proud that his memorial thread restarted the 1/3 debate.
Indeed. I can't believe some people are still taking the "impossible to divide a candy bar into equal thirds" stance. (If any of y'all remember that is actually what he said, that one of the pieces would be infinitesimally larger than the others because 1/3 isn't decimally expressed and since it couldn't be precisely annotated decimally it didn't exist).
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