{"id":552,"date":"2020-08-31T23:55:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T23:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2020-09-01T00:00:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T00:00:45","slug":"225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/31\/225\/","title":{"rendered":"2+2=5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is kinda funny &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/biden-claims-that-225-snopes-rates-mostly-true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snopes Rates Biden&#8217;s Claim That 2+2=5 As &#8216;Mostly True&#8217;<\/a> &#8212; but as my brother reminded me recently, 2+2 does equal five for large values of 2. <\/p>\n<p>Not really, of course. 2.4, which rounds down to 2, plus 2.4 = 4.8, which rounds up to 5. But that&#8217;s just playing with numbers. <\/p>\n<p>2+2=3 would also be true. 1.6 rounds up to 2, and 1.6 + 1.6 = 3.2, which rounds down to 3. But &#8212; again &#8212; that&#8217;s just playing around, and I suppose it highlights the difference between engineering and mathematics. 2+2=4 in mathematics, but in engineering you would say that 2+2=4 +\/- 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is kinda funny &#8212; Snopes Rates Biden&#8217;s Claim That 2+2=5 As &#8216;Mostly True&#8217; &#8212; but as my brother reminded me recently, 2+2 does equal five for large values of 2. Not really, of course. 2.4, which rounds down to 2, plus 2.4 = 4.8, which rounds up to 5. But that&#8217;s just playing with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/31\/225\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2+2=5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}