I'm losing my favourite game

[venta]

Return of an old rant:

I just called the Swan to book my car in for some work on Saturday. During my fifteen second conversation with the receptionist, she said "just bear with me a second" three times.

That's a whopping 12 bwm/minute, on average.

Comments

Re: I see I'm not the only person who likes silly ratios.

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

I suspect you are thinking of the specific case 0/0, not 0/x in general. This is a logical deduction from the "self evident" (but incorrect) premises:

0/x is always 0
x/x is always 1
x/0 is always infinite.

Therefore it is a common belief that 0/0 can be either 0, 1 or infinite.

As others have said, these premises are not true when you are dividing by zero.

Re: I see I'm not the only person who likes silly ratios.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Meaning, presumably, that the last one is never true. I.e. what bateleur and many others said.