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If you add water to the potato infinitely (hypothetically speaking), does the water percentage approach 100%? And also, does the solid percentage approach 0%?

• bbcbasic 11y ago
  Yes. More precisely, given a positive value p > 0, you can choose a "w" such that adding w% of water dilutes it to p% potato. Or another way - given you pour water in at any constant rate forever, given any p% you want to dilute to, there will be a point in time where that dilution level is exceeded, and will remain so for every point in time after that.
• nightcracker 11y ago
  No. You won't have a potato anymore. But you won't have water anymore either. You'll have a black hole.
  • ajuc 11y ago
    Is potato-blackhole distinguishable from same mass water black-hole?
    • cbd1984 11y ago
      > Is potato-blackhole distinguishable from same mass water black-hole? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem We don't know if black holes have hair, so the answer to your question is "We don't know". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
• wycx 11y ago
  If the potato is sufficiently finely divided, and the volume of water is large enough, evetually all the potato will dissolve completely in the water, and there will be no solids left.