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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
It's what I do. :shrug: 
Whatever the reason, arbitrary or not, you said that 14 does not equal 14.0 and I just gave you a concrete example to the contrary. Sorry if it's not convenient. |
It's not inconvenient. It's improperly using the practices for measuring phyisical things (time and distance) to measure a non-physical thing (ie the value of money). You may as well say 14 seconds is equivalent to 14 dollars. Makes no sense.
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What does that even mean, "not valid"? They don't exist? Or we simply don't care about them? Because I agree that we don't care about them, as I've said. And I think that the rulemakers don't care about them, as I've said. But the shot clock is measuring them...
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Wrong.
The shot clock is certainly not guaranteed to "measure" anything between 14 and 15. Surely the shot clock exists thru the time between 15 seconds and 14 seconds (as we do) but you have no standing to say the shot clock "measures" that time. And even if it did actually "measure" that time, how do we know what the measurement is? We don't, because 10ths of seconds are not available to us. IOW they are not valid for use in our measurement.