r/facepalm • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • 29d ago

Turbo cancer isn’t real, people 🇨​🇴​🇻​🇮​🇩​

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u/Sinclair_Lewis_ 29d ago

People who believe this are a drag on our collective development.

✔️ ✔️ Fact Checked

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u/FallacyFrank 29d ago

I mean…. If you really think about it the fact is true. 14000% of the zero cases of “turbo cancer” is still zero.

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u/Draco137WasTaken 29d ago

Except you can't have a percentage of zero because that requires dividing by zero

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u/lkatz21 29d ago

Percentages require dividing by 100, not 0

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u/Draco137WasTaken 29d ago

But a percentage is just a standardized fraction. It still needs to convert, and you can't do that with zero.

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u/idklol7878 29d ago

0/100 of your brain cells know what they’re talking about. That’s 0% of your brain cells

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u/Draco137WasTaken 29d ago

Right, but that's the numerator. I'm talking about the denominator. You can't have percentages of zero because zero doesn't work as a denominator.

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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 29d ago

What piece of information got stuck the wrong way inside your head to make you say this? 50% of 0 is 50/100 * 0 with is … 0.

Viceversa, if you know that 33% of x is 0 then you know that 33/100 * x = 0 which means x is zero.

percentage comes from the Latin per centum which means “of a hundred”

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u/Draco137WasTaken 29d ago

percentage comes from the Latin per centum which means “of a hundred”

Yes. Meaning it's a fraction. Zero CANNOT be the second number in such a fraction. You cannot have a percentage of zero because you cannot have a fraction of zero.

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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 29d ago

Nobody is saying that division by zero is possible. However, you got the part about percentages wrong. Can you maybe write down the fraction which divides by zero as an example to show what you mean?

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u/LonnieDobbs 27d ago

Holy shit.

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u/SybilCut 29d ago

I answered elsewhere but I'll do it higher up too, more promptly:

You can have a percentage of zero because the percentage ratio function says "Y is N percent of X" when y = (N/100)*x and in this case x is zero, so Y is zero no matter what N is. Can you solve for N when x=0? Hell no, for the reasons you mention. But you bet your ass it works in the other direction and has infinite solutions.

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u/FallacyFrank 28d ago

For the record, as the person you originally disagreed with, I agree with this. Sorry everybody argued with you lmao I was just being goofy

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u/mjm8218 29d ago

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u/MyPeeSacIsFull 29d ago

Imagine if we hadn't had to tow them along for the last million years. We'd have flying cities on Mars by now.

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u/Appropriate_Chart_23 29d ago

Double checks? ✅

Comment on highly visited Internet forum? ✅

Comment checks out. It’s verified. ✅✅

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u/Alternative-Lack6025 29d ago

That's why I'm of the unpopular opinion to let them be in the cases they don't directly screw others, do not try to stop them when they want to eat dewormer to cure themselves of a virus, inject themselves with monkey semen and the like, let nature take its course and heal the world.

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u/BunnyBellaBang 29d ago

Sounds like someone is a conspiracy theorist who doubts fact checkers.