Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
by umanwizard on Saturday November 17, 2018 @01:40AM
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What is stopping people from making meter sticks with 3000 lines, i.e. every third of a millimeter is marked?
(The point is, there is nothing any more "infinite" about the rational number 1/3 than 1/4, 1/5, 1/2 or what have you. It just can't be written in the arbitrary base 10 system, just like 1/5 can't be written in base 12)
(The point is, there is nothing any more "infinite" about the rational number 1/3 than 1/4, 1/5, 1/2 or what have you. It just can't be written in the arbitrary base 10 system, just like 1/5 can't be written in base 12)