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Comments for Clip 6

Text of clip 6 (:57)

4/6: Tell me 1 how many pieces of that cake would you eat?

1: Why, I would eat the whole cake, of course.

4/6: But how many pieces is that?

1: Well it’s five pieces.

4/6: Exactly. That’s 5/5ths. 5/5ths is one of your forms. If you really concentrate you can change forms and have a 5 on top and 5 on the bottom.

Narrator: So 1 concentrated and concentrated and he became a 5 on the top and 5 on the bottom. But his wife 186 was so upset to see her husband in this state that he changed back immediately.

4/6: You see, you’re a rational number just like me and all the other rational numbers that live in the dark woods beyond the mountains.

1: But, what’s a rational number?

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