dtgreene: Math problem:
Originally, there are 2 slices of pizza and 1 person in the room. That person takes 3 slices of pizza and leaves. Then, the remaining people in the room decide to split the remaining pizza between themselves. How many slices of pizza does each person get?
nightcraw1er.488: It depends. If you don’t consider the 2 slices as a whole the problem is mute as the person cannot take more than is there. If however you consider the 2 slices the “whole” and the person takes 3 slice from that whole, then whatever is left from what they take is divided by no other people. Of course the lack of descriptives on the room could lead to any answer, perhaps more pizza comes in via the window or dumb waiter, or maybe it’s a pizza shop. Oh, you could also say that 1 person gets 2 slices and that is all, there is only one person and two slices, the rest is irrelevant.
Actually, the way I wrote the problem is that there are -1 slices of pizza, and 0 people to share them, so how many slices does each of the 0 people get?
The answer, of course, is negative one divided by zero. Anyone have a calculator handy (and it needs to be one that will handle this without an error)?