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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

If you cut perfectly, which is impossible because you won't count or split atoms (and there is a smallest possible indivisible size). Each slice is a repeating decimal 0.333... or in other words infinitely many 3s. (i don't know math well that's just what i remember from somewhere)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    If the number of atoms is a multiple of 3, then you can split it perfectly.

    For example say there’s 6 atoms in a cake, and there’s 3 people that want cake. Each person gets 2 atoms which is one third of the cake.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    The main problem is simply that math is "perfect" and reality isn't. Since math is an abstract description of causality while reality doesn't/can't really "do" infinity.

    But if you really wanted to, you could bake a cake in a lab with a predetermined number of atoms and then split that cake into 3 perfect slices. However, once you start counting multiples(like atoms in a cake) you would no longer get 1/3 or 0.3 because you are now dividing a number bigger than 1(the number of atoms) so you would't get a fraction(0.3) You would get a whole number.

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