Monday, August 17, 2009

Nerd epiphany.

Posted in by Melanie Anne Westin | Edit
While making my mac n cheese I was thinking about fractions,
and I realized if you took a fraction of a whole number, and wanted to make it the next biggest fraction of a whole number, all you have to do is add that next biggest fraction multiplied by your current fraction to your current fraction.
[are you totally lost yet?]

Like say you had 1/4 and you wanted to make it 1/3, all you have to do is add a third of 1/4 to 1/4 and you'll get 1/3.

like 1/3 of 1/4 is 1/12 right? and then you add that to 1/4 which is 3/12

so 1/12 + 3/12 = 4/12 which is 1/3, the next biggest fraction of a whole number!

Holy shit!

It works!

Say you want to make 1/7 into 1/6
1/6 of 1/7 is 1/42, and 1/7 is 6/42. 1/42 + 6/42 = 7/42 = 1/6

MY GOD.
I am a mathematical genius.

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