you guys are all married women. refusing to admit you're all wrong.
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Catullus16
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Originally posted by Darren Sanders
"semantics - the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning"
so you're calling everything a semantics dispute? because if everything is something, then nothing really is.
also, i'm p sure we all agree about what an arithmetic mean is, so there isn't even a dispute. it also seems that we agree that by "average" we meant the arithmetic mean. the ONLY dispute (and now i'm resorting to caps because people seem to keep missing this point) is whether duration and average rate are equal in this instance. i am saying that they are not, because of the simultaneity. other people are saying that they are, because of the simultaneity.
if we stay on track, we might actually bring this to a close. it's a shame spin didn't have the balls to answer my question earlier about bob's average rate, because that really slowed us down.
"semantics - the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning"
so you're calling everything a semantics dispute? because if everything is something, then nothing really is.
also, i'm p sure we all agree about what an arithmetic mean is, so there isn't even a dispute. it also seems that we agree that by "average" we meant the arithmetic mean. the ONLY dispute (and now i'm resorting to caps because people seem to keep missing this point) is whether duration and average rate are equal in this instance. i am saying that they are not, because of the simultaneity. other people are saying that they are, because of the simultaneity.
if we stay on track, we might actually bring this to a close. it's a shame spin didn't have the balls to answer my question earlier about bob's average rate, because that really slowed us down.
Catullus16
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Originally posted by vladykins
And you have asked the wrong question yourself every time.
almost.
i have been saying all along that if you want the duration that you need to ask the right average rate. so yes, average time-per-dude is the wrong term. i repeat that what you apparently want is average girltime-per-dude or some other term that captures simultaneity. the only remaining problem is your insistence that time is girltime, which is as moronic as just pretending that yen is yuan or years are lightyears.
And you have asked the wrong question yourself every time.
almost.
i have been saying all along that if you want the duration that you need to ask the right average rate. so yes, average time-per-dude is the wrong term. i repeat that what you apparently want is average girltime-per-dude or some other term that captures simultaneity. the only remaining problem is your insistence that time is girltime, which is as moronic as just pretending that yen is yuan or years are lightyears.
Catullus16
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Originally posted by vladykins
So again, you equate the bank being open for a span of "time" one year to be the only measure of time, and thus it becomes 1 day/account.
time is time. duration is an interval of time. those intervals can be consecutive or simultaneous (and some other possibilities, but that's another thread).
the question you asked specified simultaneity, so it wouldn't be that helpful to compute the average rate in terms of days-per-account when what you actually want is the duration of the average account in terms of days. your first clue that you're doing the wrong calculation entirely is when your answer is days/account instead of just days, but i know how much you hate being precise with units because fuck math it's all opinion whee!
So again, you equate the bank being open for a span of "time" one year to be the only measure of time, and thus it becomes 1 day/account.
time is time. duration is an interval of time. those intervals can be consecutive or simultaneous (and some other possibilities, but that's another thread).
the question you asked specified simultaneity, so it wouldn't be that helpful to compute the average rate in terms of days-per-account when what you actually want is the duration of the average account in terms of days. your first clue that you're doing the wrong calculation entirely is when your answer is days/account instead of just days, but i know how much you hate being precise with units because fuck math it's all opinion whee!
Catullus16
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Originally posted by Ahoda
you guys are all married women. refusing to admit you're all wrong.
we're all wrong?
you guys are all married women. refusing to admit you're all wrong.
we're all wrong?
benmint0n
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What about quantum cumming, where we do not know the location of the dude's jizz until witnessing it, but then we affect the location by observing it. What's the answer then?
vladykins
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Originally posted by Catullus16
time is time. duration is an interval of time. those intervals can be consecutive or simultaneous (and some other possibilities, but that's another thread).
the question you asked specified simultaneity, so it wouldn't be that helpful to compute the average rate in terms of days-per-account when what you actually want is the duration of the average account in terms of days. your first clue that you're doing the wrong calculation entirely is when your answer is days/account instead of just days, but i know how much you hate being precise with units because fuck math it's all opinion whee!
Go look up "time vs duration" on the net and come back to me.
As I said, only project managers seem to focus on time being only one definition and duration being another. In fact,m you seem to have duration and time backwards yourself, since duration refers to a defined period of time. So if the question involved the total duration that guys were in the bathroom, it could max out at 43 mins. The total amount of time spent by dudes in the bathroom would involve all their individual time spent added together.
So once again, if you want to stick to hardened definitions, you are actually wrong in your calculation. You'll note the phrase is not "Duration is relative".
Originally posted by Catullus16
we're all wrong?
Always. It's part of being married.
time is time. duration is an interval of time. those intervals can be consecutive or simultaneous (and some other possibilities, but that's another thread).
the question you asked specified simultaneity, so it wouldn't be that helpful to compute the average rate in terms of days-per-account when what you actually want is the duration of the average account in terms of days. your first clue that you're doing the wrong calculation entirely is when your answer is days/account instead of just days, but i know how much you hate being precise with units because fuck math it's all opinion whee!
Go look up "time vs duration" on the net and come back to me.
As I said, only project managers seem to focus on time being only one definition and duration being another. In fact,m you seem to have duration and time backwards yourself, since duration refers to a defined period of time. So if the question involved the total duration that guys were in the bathroom, it could max out at 43 mins. The total amount of time spent by dudes in the bathroom would involve all their individual time spent added together.
So once again, if you want to stick to hardened definitions, you are actually wrong in your calculation. You'll note the phrase is not "Duration is relative".
Originally posted by Catullus16
we're all wrong?
Always. It's part of being married.
Primate
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Looking back at the original argument:
Math in the abstract has no value except for winning nerd fights. That means spin is correct.
OTOH
It was a nerd fight, so Catullus also won.
The only real loser here is dadd, because FU DADD.
Math in the abstract has no value except for winning nerd fights. That means spin is correct.
OTOH
It was a nerd fight, so Catullus also won.
The only real loser here is dadd, because FU DADD.
Primate
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Originally posted by vladykins
We're not allowed to be right at home.
My wife let's me be right once in a while. I think?
We're not allowed to be right at home.
My wife let's me be right once in a while. I think?
Primate
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Originally posted by Dadd
The only time I'm right is when I tell her I was wrong ...
Oh, in that case, I'm right a lot.
The only time I'm right is when I tell her I was wrong ...
Oh, in that case, I'm right a lot.
Dadd
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Originally posted by Primate
Even when I'm not wrong, I'm right. Welcome to my circle.
don't say circle ... you'll summon Token and Ahoda
Even when I'm not wrong, I'm right. Welcome to my circle.
don't say circle ... you'll summon Token and Ahoda
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