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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-08-10 04:30 PM
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Poll question: Do you believe that a positive, whole number that is odd cannot also be even?
Edited on Sun Aug-08-10 04:39 PM by Boojatta
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-08-10 04:54 PM
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1. You're missing a response alternative:
Hunh?"
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-08-10 05:04 PM
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3. I provided this option: "Don't understand the question or offended by the question."
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-08-10 04:55 PM
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2. If it's in a quantum state, sure
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txlibdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 06:28 AM
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6. Like that darn cat
<shivers>
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The Wielding Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-08-10 05:21 PM
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4. Will this question be on the test?
:crazy: :silly:
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-08-10 05:24 PM
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5. I think only even numbers can be divided exactly by two, which is very odd nt
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-10 11:07 PM
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7. Division Algorithm!
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bananas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-10 08:17 AM
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8. Do you mean "odd" as in "funny", or "odd" as in "strange"?
And if you mean "odd" as in "funny", do you mean "funny ha-ha" or "funny strange"?


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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-10 02:41 PM
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9. I mean odd like 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, etc.
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-21-10 03:17 PM
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10. Kick
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 04:15 PM
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11. Kick
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 06:16 PM
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12. I dated a woman in college who was really good at gelato
She was a psych major with a minor in math, and I believe that she would have said that an odd number, by definition, is not-even. Therefore a positive, whole number that is not-even cannot also be even.


She also mentioned offhandedly that it's tacky and narcissistic to kick one's own threads after they've lain dormant for several weeks.
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-17-10 12:49 PM
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13. Did she say anything about open and closed sets in various topologies?
Edited on Fri Sep-17-10 12:50 PM by Boojatta
I hear that, in some topological spaces, no set is both open and closed, but that the general definitions provide no such guarantee and that in some topological spaces there are clopen sets: sets that are simultaneously open and closed. Of course, that's mere hearsay. Perhaps the woman you mention could participate in this thread and share some actual knowledge (I presume that there is a contrast between knowledge and hearsay).
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GreenStormCloud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-01-10 03:13 PM
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14. Is it written on a mobius strip? N/T
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