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Grim wrote:Do you have a question that you believe cannot be answered logically?
What is a square with three sides?
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Do you have a question that you believe cannot be answered logically?
What is Pi?
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"A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as he could if a woodchuck could chuck wood"

A woodchuck does not actually chuck wood they burrow into dens called winter burrows where they hibernate during freezing months. The land beaver, as they are also commonly known, will climb trees to escape predators but prefer the safety of their burrows when threatened.

A square with three sides is a triangle.

Pi is a constant whose value is a ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

Pi = circumference/diameter

Pi = area/radius^2

Pi is an irrational number, which means that its value cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction. Consequently, its decimal representation never ends or repeats. This infinite sequence of digits has fascinated mathematicians and laymen alike, and much effort over the last few centuries has been put into computing more digits and investigating the number's properties. It is also a transcendental number, which means that no finite sequence of algebraic operations on integers (powers, roots, sums, etc.) can be equal to its value. The value of Pi has been computed to more than a trillion (10^12) digits.

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Yes, Grim, we know woodchucks don't actually chuck wood. But, in the event that a woodchuck were to chuck wood how much would he chuck?
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If I woodchuck were to chuck wood he would chuck as much as he could.

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A woodchuck could chuck much wood if she ever did chuck wood, but alas her belly is full, so she chucks less wood than she could. :slap:
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Very good point. I seriously never looked at it like that, Interbane. :shock:
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Chris asked:
What's the difference between an orange?
I would rephrase that to 'What is Orange?' a question about light which has me baffled. What is light? Why do certain light beams bounce off certain surfaces and appear to our eyes as various colours?

What is light? How can you cut through, human flesh, or cast iron, with a lazer, which is just a light beam? A vibration, like sound (sound waves), but light waves are much more complex than sound waves, I think.

What is Gravity? What will happen when they find the Higgs Boson??

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Why do they call driveways driveways? ...and parkways parkways?
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My head is spinning from this topic! LOL Why can't I ever find the emoticon I want?! There is no spinning head one!
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