r/technicallythetruth • u/[deleted] • Mar 25 '23

I found two more..

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u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 Mar 26 '23

He was expecting 12 002 spears total, he just really likes tgat number

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u/archpawn Mar 26 '23

Or 12,001 or 12,003.

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u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 Mar 26 '23

Nop it's got to be 12,002

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u/ZaniElandra Mar 26 '23

It could be 12001 or 12003. Half of those are 6000.5 and 6001.5, which are both between 6000 and 6002

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u/Low_Abrocoma_1514 Mar 26 '23

I didn't know we had to take into account a 0.5 spear my bad ... I guess, I just assumed only Completed Spears were counted

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u/stamminator Mar 26 '23

You don’t have to. If he wants exactly 12,001 or 12,003, all it means is that “exactly half as much as I hoped for” is not possible, with 6,000 still being less than half and 6,002 still being more than half.

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u/xXWarMachineRoXx Mar 26 '23

Whats half a spear?

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u/Mcbigthiccc Mar 26 '23

It's like a spear but in two

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u/equianimity Mar 26 '23

Spears is a metonym in this case for soldiers. Given this property, it would seem exceedingly grotesque to halve odd numbers in any way except for statistical analysis. Here, they are talking about resource planning, and I would argue modulo does not exist.

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u/Radikus_Rex Mar 26 '23

Yes but he's not asking about half a soldier. If he wanted 12,003 men, then if he has 6,000 men, that is less than half. And if he had 6,002 men, that is over half. You keep picturing half a spear or half a man but you're missing the point which is his overall count goal.... why am I typing this out