Thread: The glass is half full

Well, im sure a lot of you know about the question 'is the glass half empty or half full'. As I see it, it is half full. Half=0.5. 'full' (1) * 0.5=0.5. empty(0.0)*0.5=0.0, so a 'half empty' glass would be empty, as half of 0 is 0. Anyone agree or disagree? Im just curious about what other people think about this.

when you're using "half empty" you're describing the emptyness of it, not the beer. both are still true. maybe emptyness isn't a real quantity.

lol. <james_lipton>C_Coder you are a delight!</james_lipton>

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
 float glass = 0.5;
 printf("%.0f",glass);
 return 0;
}

The glass is half full.

james lipton - the host of 'inside the actors studio' . Saturday night live does a really funny skit with him.

Of course the glass is 2 * too big.












And to all those opposed, mmm Well !!

half empty means that half of the glass is empty (nothing in the top half(at least i hope the top)). Half full means that the glass has been filled half way (meaning that the top half is empty again). There for they both mean the same thing. I'd say half full is more pesemistic because your complaining that you got only half of a full glass while half empty means that atleast its only half empty instead of fully so.