Less than Zero.
Sep. 14th, 2003 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiWe just bought a nifty looking division puzzle for Elayna from Garlic Press We opened it and started playing with it, only to discover that they think you can not only have a problem of one divided by zero, but that the answer is zero. They repeated it for two and three. I'm assuming that someone just fucked up in their factory, but I'm appalled. This is basic math literacy, and in a toy designed specifically to teach math skills. Yeah, I've written the company. I'd also highly discourage anyone from buying from them at this point. I'll update if I hear anything from them (like offering replacement pieces with the correct facts.
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Date: 2003-09-14 02:52 pm (UTC)Say you have one pie, and you divide it into no pieces -- then you have no more pie, because the local universe implodes. Thus, the answer is zero, and everyone around you vaporizes.
Seems like just the puzzle you'd want for Elayna!
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Date: 2003-09-14 03:07 pm (UTC)I just had to share . . .
Date: 2003-09-14 03:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-14 03:44 pm (UTC)Re: I just had to share . . .
Date: 2003-09-14 03:47 pm (UTC)Be afraid. Be extremely, whitefaced, shrieking, running headlong into walls, rip your face from your skull afraid.
"Oo, I know! Let's run the entire Armed Forces on the most hackable, expensive to support, POS operating system we can find!!"
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Date: 2003-09-14 03:51 pm (UTC)Re: I just had to share . . .
Date: 2003-09-14 04:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-14 05:36 pm (UTC)V. disappointing!
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Date: 2003-09-14 07:22 pm (UTC);)
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Date: 2003-09-15 09:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-15 05:45 pm (UTC)