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Originally posted by Sapper
Oh me oh my .. practice what you preach.
What you are quoting is exactly what I had said when you told me I "really need to work on seeing the difference between negligible and significant factors in a given situation."
So then according to your holiness, what does this fall under? negligible or significant?
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There is no hypocrisy here, holy or otherwise. The both of you agree that the change in water volume is negligible (although, I have a feeling it's
not negligible across a
phase change).
All that
rsl12 was trying to say was that not only is the change in volume between ice and water negligible bit it isn't even significant in the sense that it didn't matter if it was
not negligible, it still would not have affected the outcome.
Besides, I think it was clear that an assumption of the question was that the water volume didn't change according to it's temperature and that a volume change only occured when the ice melted. This is reasonable if you were to assume that the question was to be, both, answerable and interesting...