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Old Jun 20, 2006 | 04:16 PM
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I can't believe that his arguement for taking a fraction that cannot be properly expressed as a precise number, taking our closest decimal approximation, and then using the failure of a decimal approximation to prove such a thing.

It's a cute theory, yes, but inherently flawed as we're dealing with the mathmatical equivilent of apples to oranges.
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