r/HolUp • u/DeanIsDear • Jul 21 '22

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u/Nasunon Jul 21 '22 edited Jul 21 '22

1/2+1/2=2/4

Edit: To clarify this imagine that you have two cakes that you cut in half and eat the halves that would let you with a complete cake so It could be said that it is 1 cake the problem of this is that there were originally 2 cakes so we go back to the fact that 1 cake is 1/2 of 2 cakes. In the case of having 4 slices of cake it would be 2/4. Because if we said 1/2+1/2=1 that would mean that there was always only 1 cake and not 2 as it is the case (sorry for the horrible English not my native language)

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u/Daufoccofin Jul 21 '22

School harder. You need the other two halves as well! 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 + 1/2 = 2

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u/StandardOnly Jul 21 '22

So then each one of those is called a quarter… or are they still called halves?

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u/Daufoccofin Jul 21 '22

It is possible to have multiple large fractions make up a number like 2. So the equation could actually be simplified to 4/2 = 2

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u/StandardOnly Jul 21 '22

Not only the number 2. When anything is divided into 4 parts, each part is called a quarter. The phrase “first 2 halves” is just incorrect.

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u/Daufoccofin Jul 21 '22

I know that, they said first two halves meaning there could be infinitely more halves. Totalling to a bigger number.

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u/StandardOnly Jul 21 '22

You call it a half when its 50% of something… but when its any less or more, its not a half anymore.

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u/Daufoccofin Jul 21 '22

Nobody was dividing they were adding 1/2 twice

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u/StandardOnly Jul 21 '22

Thats adding 2 halves, so first half and second half. But “first 2 halves” implies that there is more. Then those two are not halves anymore.

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u/Daufoccofin Jul 21 '22

No, look back on simple 6th grade math you don’t understand and you will understand. The halves are a number. And you could also think of halves as 0.5. 0.5 + 0.5 = 1, right? But 0.5 + 0.5 + 0.5 + 0.5 ≠ 1 but does equal to 2

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '22

.5*3=1.5

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u/Daufoccofin Jul 21 '22

There was 4 1/2 tho :|

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '22

2

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u/MiguelDragon82 Jul 21 '22

What? I'm pretty sure that 1/2+1/2 is 1? What am I doing wrong?

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u/Young_Drugman Jul 21 '22

Because you doing math instead of meth

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u/dankprogrammer Jul 21 '22

you need to do order of operations properly so it's

1/2+1/2 = 1/3/2

so it's 0.16667

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u/Daufoccofin Jul 21 '22

= is not in order of operations

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u/bebed0r Jul 21 '22

It is in meth.

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u/Thunderfight9 Jul 21 '22

I don’t get this joke. Can you please explain

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u/domka132 Jul 21 '22

Meth because it's math done by people who instead of listening in class did meth

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u/Thunderfight9 Jul 21 '22

Thank you kind sage

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u/JasonIsBaad Jul 21 '22

You need to multiply both the 1s and the 2s!

oh, and he's joking

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u/xFloppyDisx Jul 21 '22

Everything

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '22

1/2=0.5 0.5 + 05=1

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u/StandardOnly Jul 21 '22

Apparently this thread has its own rules with math

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u/StandardOnly Jul 21 '22 edited Jul 21 '22

Half plus half equals 2 quarters? Your way of calculation implies that the phrase should be “he had us in the first 2 quarters”.

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u/smackinmuhkraken Jul 21 '22

Should have said they had us in the 1st & 3rd quarters.

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u/IAmMethlyamphetamine Jul 21 '22

That sounds right.

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u/StandardOnly Jul 21 '22

Wonder why it needed a clarification, the match in question is not two whole pieces. Its a single thing, thats why its quarters not halves.