i don't really like replying to such a long comment with such a short one, but i feel like i need to remind you that the thing that started this chain was
Quick off the top of your head, what’s a third of 9.5mm?
reaching for a string in that situation would be puzzling to me
18ths would need two divisions by three, but thankfully dividing a known measured length by three is easy with a piece of string.
what kind of cartoon fantasyland do you live in where it's easier to find a piece of string than it is a calculator?
also, all of this is assuming you have your drafting ruler to hand
do you carry it around with you in your pocket on a day-to-day basis? some deep fucking pockets you've got there, although I suppose you already that to the 1/24th inch
They can be measured, calculated and double checked
my guy, we're talking about accuracies of millimeters here: you're not "double checking" your 12" ruler is accurate by slapping your bare carpet gripper up on the drafting table
we no longer live in the pre-industrial age
Please remember, you have as much evidence I am not, as I have that god doesn’t exist.
you're still behaving as if i'm trying to convince you of the existence of a god, rather than you trying to convince me that one doesn't exist
do you understand the difference?
the cold war, probably
That’s a loaded question. What type of god? You wanna define it before you ask if it exists.
given that we're very clearly talking in the context of a christian god here, I'm not sure what additional information you need
but what if i'm god ha ha he he
this is just that edgy teenager shit again
thinking that knowing that 1/3 * 1/8 = 1/24 is something that anybody wouldn't know is stupid
the point is the impracticality of the result being essentially equivalent to 95/3
so in other words you're helpless in that situation?
we can play the same game with 1/18th or whatever if you want
okay then my answer to the hypothetical is 9.5/3, which is every bit as easy to find on any measurement device, or to use for any practical purpose, as 1/24th
what's a 1/3 of 1/8th of an inch?
The first part is a response to "why would somebody be sad if their religion turned out to be false", which for the record, if you need it explained to you why that might be, you're really earning that "edgy teenager" label.
The second is saying that there's literally no way to be sure of answers on the scale of "is there a god?", science included
Philosophy asks some "why?" questions, but if you think it's equipped to definitively answer all of them you don't know much about philosophy.
they should just link the display to the steering wheel
to go left and right you steer accordingly
to go up and down you accelerate or break