Half full or Half empty? you decide

# 1 07-04-2007 , 07:13 AM

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Hey guys, its pretty silly though but me and my cusin are having an silly argument weather which is the right anwser user added image

you may have heard this before in your life mostlikely, though i think there both right but one of them sounds wierd ...

question: Half full or Half empty? you decide ... OR IS IT BOTH?

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# 2 07-04-2007 , 07:14 AM

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half full if you think positively.
half empty if you think negatively.

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# 3 07-04-2007 , 07:17 AM

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"half full if you think positively. half empty if you think negatively."

how does that work?

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# 4 07-04-2007 , 07:25 AM

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Half Full is correct.

Explanation: If you have a full glass, you can extract half of it. However, how can you extract half of an empty glass. It's like saying the universe is half infinite (which is still infinite).

Hope this settles the argument.

Full=1
Empty=0
1 divide by .5=0.5(half full) but 0 div by .5 does not equal .5

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# 5 07-04-2007 , 07:36 AM

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yeah thats sounds right, though he says ...

"Though if it is half empty, that means there is still another half there if you get what i mean...?"

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# 6 07-04-2007 , 07:39 AM

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And if you deduct a half from that half, then you get a quarter of a glass full; one-quarter full is most certainly not one-quarter empty user added image

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# 7 07-04-2007 , 07:43 AM

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thats not a question the requires an answer...
in fact, i dont think its ever phrased that as a question at all.

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# 8 07-04-2007 , 07:57 AM

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lol severinianthony ... user added image

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# 9 07-04-2007 , 11:18 AM

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its half empty if you drank the other half. its half flull if you just started pouring it ^_^

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# 10 07-04-2007 , 11:59 AM

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Originally posted by Perfecto
Half Full is correct.

Explanation: If you have a full glass, you can extract half of it. However, how can you extract half of an empty glass. It's like saying the universe is half infinite (which is still infinite).

Hope this settles the argument.

Full=1
Empty=0
1 divide by .5=0.5(half full) but 0 div by .5 does not equal .5

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NO!!!!! 1 divided by .5 equals 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Always half full.

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# 11 07-04-2007 , 12:02 PM

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So would you say Barman: I'd like a half empty pint of lager?

Course not...he fills it half or fills to a pint, he doesn't fill it then empty it to a half so you can have a half pint of an empty glass.

Its half full because when you start its empty.

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# 12 07-04-2007 , 12:11 PM

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xaxa it's some sort of a question like " Which is the first the chicken or the egg " :lmao:

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# 13 07-04-2007 , 03:37 PM

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Ha, ha, ha! Boy do I feel smart now. Half is either 1 div by 2 or 1 X .5

anyway, you can say "The glass is half emptied" but I still don't think its correct to say"The glass is half empty". Although you could say the glass is half filled or half full.

Then again I don't even know what 1 divided by .5 is (hehe).

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# 14 07-04-2007 , 04:20 PM

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one divided by .5 is two...

but that's beyond the point. before it can be half empty it has to have been full at one point. and before it can be half full it has to have been empty at one point.

the way i see it, half empty is better, because you have consumed half of it... and if you haven't, then someone owes you a drink cause they've been sipping from your drink user added image

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# 15 07-04-2007 , 05:19 PM

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I've always said, if you're pouring the glass of water and it's half way, then it's half full. If you just drank from a full glass of water and half of it's gone, then it's half empty... I don't care who you argue with, this usually gets them quiet about it. Or it'll make them think a little more before their next comment... unless drunk then none of it will make sence and no one will remember user added image