two mathematicians enter! one mathematician leaves! two mathematicians enter! one mathematician leaves!

two mathematicians enter, one mathematician leaves!

This rules. I haven’t read a more fun (“funner”? “more wicked”? “wickeder”?!) argument online in a long time. (The comments over on digg are friggin’ awesome.)

And it’s about freaking math.

Basically…

0.99999… = 1

Or not.

Depending on which argument you accept. Or ignore. Or beat off with a flaming sword.

This could be the geekiest thing I’ve done in a long time, but I’m having a stupendous time following the math war.

[Snort snort snort!]

UPDATE: Oh, look. There’s a Wikipedia article on it too.


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4 Responses to “two mathematicians enter! one mathematician leaves! two mathematicians enter! one mathematician leaves!”

  1. Ramzi Says:
    June 22nd, 2006 at 3:54 pm

    How far down did you get? When I got to June 17th and realized I’d only made a tiny inroad, I gave up…

  2. sween Says:
    June 22nd, 2006 at 5:32 pm

    All the freaking way, baby. All the freaking way…

    I’m just surprised Godwin’s Rule never came into play.

  3. Craig Says:
    June 23rd, 2006 at 9:33 pm

    I read just two lines more than Ramzi, if only to prove that I am smarter than he is.

  4. sween Says:
    June 26th, 2006 at 8:15 am

    I’ll be certain to write that down in the score chart. :-P

make with the yak-yak

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