How else would you define a sandwich as (bearing in mind the "pig/tattie" subject) "some roast pork between two pieces of potato scone"? If you halve a "piece" you still have two pieces. If you halve "some pork" you still have two lots of "some pork". So if you halve "some roast pork between two pieces of tattie scone" you do in fact end up with two somethings, each of which is "some pork between twa bits o' tattie scone", and so, by definition, each of the two somethings is "a sandwich".
Peasant. Upper class bread has had the crusts removed, and still comes in slices.
Besides, it's not impossible to halve a crusty slice in such a way that both halves are still crusty, and still have the same height and width, but are merely twice as thin.
It is true that any object is 100.04999% the reciprocal of its own opposite (he he he!). The only exception is paper which is defined as the thin flexible sheets of the white rectangular objects known as paper.
For every measurable quantity Q, if A is 100% Q-er than B, it means that A is twice as Q as B.
So if X is 100% thinner than Y, then X is twice as thin as Y. That doesn't mean X is 0 times as thick as Y, but half as thick!
For bread, crusty or not, if one loaf is sliced twice as thinly as another, it simply means it has twice as many slices. The two loaves in question are assumed to have been identical prior to slicing, you understand.
Is this what they taught you in Debating Society, Tim? Hurl abuse at your opponent? A Millwall fan by any chance?
I said this as a spoof:
...which I attempted to do. Obviously not being as well endowed in the fried-egg-cum-shoelaces department as you are, I am struggling with the Pure and Applied maths. But it seems to me that 1.0004999 is the reciprocal of 0.99950034977, just as certainly as 1 is the reciprocal of 1.
"Oppose" and "reciprocate" share meanings. "Reciprocal" means "complementary". Man and woman, nuts and bolts, Oxford and Cambridge, not dogs and cats, nor Bill and Ben, reciprocate, are opposite to, and complement each other.
Rubbish. Suppose Q has "thickness", say, 100.0 (units are irrelevant, this is just to give it a number - any number will do!).
Now if A is "100% thinner" than Q, then A is 100% x 100.0 = 100.0 less "thick", and so the "thickness" of A is therefore *zero*. [100.0 - 100.0 = 0.0.] Even Troy can see that!
"Ronald Raygun" wrote
That doesn't follow! BTW - what are you trying to take 100% of?
"Ronald Raygun" wrote
Yes, and if two slices were taken from either loaf then a single sandwich could be made - it's just that the sandwich from the "thicker" loaf would have twice as much bread in it...
Q is a measurable quantity. This quantity doesn't *have* thickness or thin-ness, but *is* one of them. You want to take an object, B (say, for a slice of bread), and note its thickness and its thin-ness.
OK, except that it's only the size of the units which is irrelevant, not the units themselves. So let's give them a name. Let's say our B has thickness 100.0T.
No, it is twice as thin. Thin-ness is measured in different units, not T (because Ts are units of thickness) , but (say) t. So let's say our original B had thickness 100.0T and thin-ness
37.2t.
The quantities of thickness and thin-ness are complementary and reciprocal, like resistance and conductivity, measured in Ohms and Mhos (or Sieverts as I understand they're now called), or like a car's average fuel consumption and its fuel economy, measured in (say) litres per 100km and miles per gallon.
The product of a unit of one quantity and a unit of its complementary quantity is constant and dimensionless. Sometimes the units are co-ordinated to make the product equal to 1, as is the case when we multiply an Ohm by a Sievert.
If we multiply an l/100km by an mpg, we get litre-miles per hundred kilometre-gallons, for all the sense that makes, but it reduces to the dimensionless constant of about 0.0035.
So it is with thickness and thin-ness, so if our B was 100T thick and 37.2t thin, the product of its thickness and its thin-ness was 3720Tt, and the product of any other item's thickness and thin-ness, if measured in the same units, will always be 3720Tt. If we double B's thin-ness to 74.4t, this has the consequence of its thickness ending up as 3720Tt/74.4t, which, no surprise, is 50T.
Of course it doesn't follow, it's a premise. 100% more of anything is by definition twice of it.
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