If I only ask a fraction of a question would the answers I receive only be that fraction of an answer? (like asking 1/3 of a question and getting 1/3 of an answer)
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How should we define a fraction of a question? I think that what would make sense would be as follows: - the question can be splitted into a given number N of independent subquestions. - for P<= N, asking P/N of the question would be asking P of those subquestions. If you ask such a question you could also define what would be a fraction of an answer: - you ask the whole question, splittable in those P elementar questions - I assume that a subquestion is so elementar that it can be defined whether it was answered or not answered (there would be only those two possibilities) - for R<=N, answering R/N of the question would be answering R of those subquestions. With those definitions, in respect to the original, complete question, if you are asking P/N of it, you will probably get R/N of its complete answer, with R<=P. But if your answerer is particularly verbose, you could in some cases get more than that... Notice that this whole calculation is assuming that all the subquestions have an equal "value", which is quite an inaccurate representation of reality. But a more accurate evaluation would be quite difficult to define...
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If it were one third of a question, how would we know that it was without having the whole question to compare it to? And even more importantly, who would care?
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