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1247240 No.1247240 [Reply] [Original]

/sci/ failed... how can 2+2=5

>> No.1247243

axioms

>> No.1247254

spite

>> No.1247262 [DELETED] 

very large values of 2ear

>> No.1247265

I'll give you lobotomies until you think that 2+2=5.

Long Live Big Brother, etc.

>> No.1247280

synergi

>> No.1247284

>how can 2+2=5

same way two men can equal a married couple, or not

>> No.1247299

Display wackyness.

2.4 rounded down displays as 2. 4.8 rounded up displays as 5.

So it's possible for an accurate (though poorly designed) program to say
>2 + 2 = 5
and be correct because it really means
>2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8

>> No.1247305

2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2

>> No.1247311

>>1247305
Exactly, only I was explaining it in more explicit terms.

>> No.1247320

>>1247311
This is actually a number theory joke and, worse, one of my favorites i'm afraid!

>> No.1247327

Pretty easily if you're not using base 10, although I've forgotten exactly which base produces it. I could probably find out if I wasn't such a lazy bastard, but I am.

>> No.1247397

>>1247284
Well the number 5 has a strict definition that doesn't come from ancient zombie fiction, so it's a bit different.

>> No.1247509

>>1247305
It doesn't even have to be a significantly large value of 2. 2.25 + 2.3 = 4.55, having a value closer to 5 than closer to 4. In fact, for processes involving estimation where it is better to overestimate than underestimate, /any/ value over absolute 2 added to another (including 2 itself) should be considered closer to 5 than 4. Say, for instance, that an archer--who has a record of accuracy so impeccable that he has never missed a target--must shoot 4 targets before he runs out of arrows. If you were to bet your life that he could do this, would you hand him 4 arrows or 5? Personally, I would hand him 3 million.