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I don’t get it. Are you saying the knife is clean?
Yes. The knife is clean if we are cutting exact thirds. As one other user mentioned, base-10 doesn’t allow prime fractions to be conveyed cleanly, so we use repeating decimals to imply that it is a fraction.
Either we live in a world where .333 is correct or we live in a world where knives come out clean when cutting a cake. We can't have both
I will take the world with clean knives any day.
So that's a no on the infinite cake universe?
Lame.