jcbenten

you mean 2/3 = 0.666666... ?? No issue. My comment was if you divide a whole number (or integer) by the same number (or integer), it equals 1 (one). 2nd grade stuff. Now, once you get to college, rules change. I found the rules changed the most between General Chemistry and Physical Chemistry.

Little Rider

1/9=.11111

9*(1/9)=.999999

9/9=.99999

9/9=1/1=1

1=.99999

sprintr

Shimano water or Campy water? Or is it Red water?

chinotex

Because the suit is wet, not because the water making the suit wet is wet itself. Wetness is not a quality of water, it is a quality of things soaked in water.

"Moisture is the essence of wetness, and wetness is the essence of beauty."
-Derek Zoolander, sage.

chinotex

.999... repeating DOES equal one. Did you miss that day in math class?

AEO

so according to him, if I soak my bike in water, it's at least 31x sexier?

JMT114

water is wet, but it gets wetter by adding detergent

HigherGround

"If I melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?" - Steven Wright

chinotex

correct.

Camilo

Don't you have to put a bar over the last digit for this to be true? I'm not sure, it's been a long time since I studied math at the college level and hit the wall at multivariable calculus and didn't take any math (except elementary statistics) after that.

eb314

Stop with all the .9999=1 crap. We get it. But when you say 1/3 = .3333 repeating, it's not entirely correct. You can't represent 1/3 in decimal form to an exact point without using infinity, so necessary approximation gives you the .999999=1 answer, which really isn't true.

mtnwalker

Wait, I thought water is only wet when it touches something. Water by itself, like in a vacuum, is dry. When water touches an object, then the object is wet. I have yet to hear someone say "My water is wet." Yet I hear "My clothes are wet." all the time.

Lastly, if you look at the word wet, doesn't wet look weird? Sounds like a foreign language.

Wet, wet, wet, wet, wet.

chinotex

That's what I'm TALKIN' ABOUT!

neurocycler

I think a more interesting question is why does the specific combination of 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen (two non-wet elements at room temperature) produce something that is quite possibly wet?

dryh2o

look at my name

momod

same as sound.. but all things we experience in pecerption become methaphor linguistically... wet is somewhat analogous to water in that manner... I do agree with you though to be clear..

JMT114

It's also interesting to me that two elements when stored separately and combined at the correct time can burn with enough intensity to fuel the space shuttle, yet when the same two elements are combined in water they do not burn.

bikeM3987

https://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=wet

Noun

• S: (n) moisture, wet (wetness caused by water) "drops of wet gleamed on the window"

Verb

• S: (v) wet (cause to become wet) "Wet your face"
• S: (v) wet (make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating) "This eight year old boy still wets his bed"

Adjective

• S: (adj) wet (covered or soaked with a liquid such as water) "a wet bathing suit"; "wet sidewalks"; "wet weather"
• S: (adj) wet (containing moisture or volatile components) "wet paint"
• S: (adj) wet (supporting or permitting the legal production and sale of alcoholic beverages) "a wet candidate running on a wet platform"; "a wet county"
• S: (adj) wet, lactating (producing or secreting milk) "a wet nurse"; "a wet cow"; "lactating cows"
• S: (adj) wet (consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor) "a wet cargo"; "a wet canteen"
• S: (adj) besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet (very drunk)

banerjek

If a martini or wine can be dry, so can water....

urodacus

depends on the vintage, i think. and how long it's been in the cellar.

urodacus

3 * 0.333... = 1 (which you can write as 0.9999... if you want)

but that does not answer the question of whether water is wet.

or why it is in the road forum.

urodacus

hydrogen bonding, my son.

dipole moments due to non-symmetrical arrangements of opposite charge, and consequent dipolar attraction (induced or actual) in other materials. has a lot to do with the orbital arrangement of the unfilled electron shell in oxygen atoms.

etc.

urodacus

um, the two elements when combined in water have already burnt. burning is the combining of the hydrogen and the oxygen.


sorry. bored at work today.

cuski

What the FRACK?!

ElJamoquio

.9999999... = 1. You are correct.