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Why we know that there was no global flood.
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Subduction Zone
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In certain aspects of life, yes. I am sure that there are some areas where you would fare better than I.
So are you ready to get back to the lesson at hand?
Subduction Zone
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It is an offer. I am merely here to help. Like it or not you have demonstrated a lack of education in both the sciences and now math.
Or we could continue to discuss the topic of the thread. Have you realized your errors yet in regards to the end of the last glaciation?
Sorry that you don't understand math, I was a PSAT National Merit Finalist in my high school(aced the math section) in the top 1/2 percent of the country, I was very good at math, but I took a different path; musical instrument building and violin repair, so i'm not quite as devoted to academics today, and spend my time working with my hands mostly. You can click on my violin website in my signature.
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Subduction Zone
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Too bad that you did not continue in your math education. Your high school level of understanding is simply wrong. And like I said, you probably have talents that I do not have.
ETA: Also when it comes to some skills you must use them or lose them. I took a majors level differential equations class in college. It was the one course that I not only got every point possible on the regular exams, it was also the only course where a professor offered "extra credit" for an additional problem in the final. I solved that problem too. Sadly I did not use those skills and they are now gone. It seems to be the same with you and your even more basic mathematical skills.
Once again, are you ready to get back to the topic of the thread? You were informed that going off topic is not allowed. You made some rather gross errors. Someone with skills in math should be able to understand those errors.
Subduction Zone
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Probably so. A violin that I "repaired' would be rather lacking in tonality. Though I might be able to repair the finish in one. I did work in furniture repair, so I could probably restore a violin cosmetically. But when it comes to making it so it sounds sweet I would have no clue.
This is a very very silly post imo.
Refinishing violins greatly reduces their value, preserving the original finish, no matter how much wear, is the goal.
Subduction Zone
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I did not say that I would refinish the violin. I never refinished an item. I repaired items that were harmed in some way. I did not even imply that I refinished them. Besides your failed math skills you might want to work on your reading comprehension. You still do not realize what errors you made with your math.
If you don't understand what I'm saying about math, how am I supposed to believe your other claims. A number just expressed as 2 has one significant digit, which means it could be rounded up or down from 1.50001-2.499999. Now if you want to claim your number 2 has multiple significant digits, as in 2.000000 then by all means say so, but you didn't hence the flaw in your math calculations.
Subduction Zone
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I do understand what you are saying about math. I also understand your errors. You are the one that has been corrected by more than one person and do not see your errors.
You probably did not take too much proper science where they dealt with the concept of "significant digits". Understanding that concept would lead you to see how and why a value of 1.5966243632...... might be called "2". You engaged in a form of special pleading in your argument, but you forgot to set up your parameters first. That is why your claim was wrong. If you do not understand what others are writing from context you will probably continue to repeat this error of yours.
No. Only 2 is 2 (sic). The rounding you mentioned are conveniences used in engineering applications and is not part of Mathematics. The = sign can't be used in such cases. All mathematical statements are either exactly valid or exactly invalid. There is no room for rounding, appx. or imprecisions. What kind of math is being taught in US schools now!
Subduction Zone
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Another problem with his claim is that in such applications, which are also used in the sciences (observations are never perfect) is that the number of significant digits is always mentioned when using this convention along with an error range. The problem as stated dealt with integral math in which decimal values do not exist just as in most math that people use the square root of negative one does not exist.
Subduction Zone
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Well you have absolutely no evidence that Noah did not build an ark, set sail after a major flood, and land months later in the middle east, as recorded in the stories of multiple world cultures. I think I would agree that there has not been a flood that covered Mt, Everest, for instance, but there may well have been a flood that covered the low lying area Noah had lived in, and you have presented no evidence to support the idea that that story is impossible, maybe its unlikely, but it is not impossible.
No, the concept of 2 is inflexible within arithmetic.
If you want to step into the world of business, where rounding is common, and you can simply enter the dollars and ignore the cents, be they 1 or 99, and you can pull figures out the air and add or deduct them, and so on, feel free.
But arithmetic has strict concepts, and business does not.
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