Poll: How many sandwiches ? (now with a poll!)

[Manlove is my forte]

You take a piece of string. You cut it in half. You eat one piece.

Did you eat half a piece of string?

NO!! You did not eat half a bloody piece of string you ate a whole one.

I'm taking a second stab at this.

So your sting is not complete in the first place it is just a piece of string. Not a whole string. Or a ball of string. Just a piece of string. I has met no criteria set to state it is a whole, and by the description given it is clearly not a whole string.

You cut it in half to make 2 smaller pieces of string. You eat one of these pieces of string (some sort of northern delicacy). You have another piece of string, you don't want to insult your northern host so you eat the other half of your string serving.

Did you eat a whole string? No you ate 2 pieces of string that constituted one serving of string. Eating any more string would be plain greedy.

 

[MR_Punk]

You need to be quicker than that.

As does the guy you quoted if he wants to put me in my place

Nice to see you've got the fighting spirit mate, im full agreed with you on this!

 

[Gilly]

I'm taking a second stab at this.

Good. Your first attempt was decidedly poor

So your sting is not complete in the first place it is just a piece of string. Not a whole string. Or a ball of string. Just a piece of string. I has met no criteria set to state it is a whole, and by the description given it is clearly not a whole string.

I'm going to need a definition of a whole string here.

You cut it in half to make 2 smaller pieces of string. You eat one of these pieces of string (some sort of northern delicacy). You have another piece of string, you don't want to insult your northern host so you eat the other half of your string serving.

No. You eat the second piece of string

Nice to see you've got the fighting spirit mate, im full agreed with you on this!

I will not go gentle into that good night!

 

[Raymond Lin]

I can see Gilly goes into a bakery and ask for 2 sandwiches next time.

 

[MR_Punk]

I will not go gentle into that good night!

YORKSHIRE SPIRIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Manlove is my forte]

Good. Your first attempt was decidedly poor

No. You eat the second piece of string

Yes Gilly I eat the second piece of string but I did not eat a whole string. Because there is an unquantified amount of string where the original piece was taken from.

piece
n.
1. A thing considered as a unit or an element of a larger thing, quantity, or class; a portion: a piece of string.
2. A portion or part that has been separated from a whole: a piece of cake.

 

[Mr_L]

I'm gonna have to bust my 1337 maths skills out here!
[1337]

1 ÷ 2 = 0.5

[/1337]

So 1 sandwich sliced in half gets you half a sandwich. If you start with one sandwich, the only way you can multiply it is to make another.

 

[Whitewater]

Yes Gilly I eat the second piece of string but I did not eat a whole string. Because there is an unquantified amount of string where the original piece was taken from.

We must find how long a piece of string is :|

Kronologic, the quote you posted was incomplete, I've corrected it below:

2. A portion or part that has been separated from a whole: a piece of cake or a ONE SANDWICH TO LEAVE TWO HALVES OF THAT ONE SANDWICH!!!!!!!1111

 

[Whitewater]

I'm gonna have to bust my 1337 maths skills out here!
[1337]

1 ÷ 2 = 0.5

[/1337]

So 1 sandwich sliced in half gets you half a sandwich. If you start with one sandwich, the only way you can multiply it is to make another.

I bow down to your 1337 maths skills for they are entirely correct

 

[Mr_L]

^^^ I thank you! [Takes a bow and a curtsey]

 

[Gilly]

Yes Gilly I eat the second piece of string but I did not eat a whole string. Because there is an unquantified amount of string where the original piece was taken from.

For any of your argument to hold water you need to quantify a whole string. You've not done this yet.

 

[Manlove is my forte]

For any of your argument to hold water you need to quantify a whole string. You've not done this yet.

A whole string is a string found in its original undevided state after production.

like whole sandwich when found in its original undevided state after production

When you cut a sandwhich you get pieces of a sandwhich.
When you cut the original string you get pieces of string.

 

[FincH]

A whole string is a string found in its original undevided state after production.

like whole sandwich when found in its original undevided state after production

When you cut a sandwhich you get pieces of a sandwhich.
When you cut the original string you get pieces of string.

Well done. You got your point across well

If you take a sandwhich and cut it into 2000 pieces, do you have 2000 sandwichs?

 

[Gilly]

A whole string is a string found in its original undevided state after production.

like whole sandwich when found in its original undevided state after production

When you cut a sandwhich you get pieces of a sandwhich.
When you cut the original string you get pieces of string.

And they're both whole, full things. The piece of string is a whole piece of string. The sandwich is a whole sandwich.

So you've still not achieved anything

 

[DHR]

My guess is that it could be either 1 or 2, depends how they're packaged.

 

[Stringy]

Looks like the poll is doing the talking at the moment If this were a democracy, the One Sandwich party would be in government

 

[Manlove is my forte]

And they're both whole, full things. The piece of string is a whole piece of string. The sandwich is a whole sandwich.

So you've still not achieved anything

How is half of something whole?

 

[Gilly]

How is half of something whole?

Because they stand as a full entity alone

Half a hole is still a whole hole

 

[Manlove is my forte]

Because they stand as a full entity alone

Half a hole is still a whole hole

Please demonstrate the devision of a hole. I would like to see this.

 

[Piggymon]

This thread is hysterical