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.99999999999999999999999999999.......

HexartesHexartes
edited 2012-12-07 21:28:42 in General
See also: one

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  • Corporal ForsytheCorporal Forsythe
    Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    Proof:

    1/3 = .333333333333333...
    2/3 = .666666666666666...
    3/3 = 1

    qed
  • SpaceySpacey
    i wish to come up with a song lyric for this signature, but no song lyrics are coming to mind
    it's not one, it's .9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

    there's a significant difference
  • Corporal ForsytheCorporal Forsythe
    Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    futureSpacey? said:

    it's not one, it's .9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999


    there's a significant difference
    2/7 + 5/7 = 7/7 = 1
    Decimals:
    0.285714 + 0.714285 = 0.999999
  • Princess AlicePrincess Alice
    You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
    There was a thread on TVT about this sometime last year

    It was hilarious to watch the justifications some people would rather come up with than simply believe something slightly counterintuitive
  • Corporal ForsytheCorporal Forsythe
    Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    Well a simple mathematical proof proves it

    However, one of my math professors disputes this, and she's way beyond my petty knowledge of math; however I have other professors who disagree with her


  • HexartesHexartes
    it's not one, it's .9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

    there's a significant difference
    the ellipses indicate continuing forever.

    Here, think about it like this: .9 is technically equal to .9000000...

    If .999..... is less than one, that would mean that the difference between 1 and .999... would be .000...1000..., which would be two infinite amounts of zeroes in the same number. You could also say that because between any two numbers there are an infinite amount of other numbers, and because there is only one potential (nonexistent) number between .999... and 1, they are the same.

    Or this:
  • Corporal ForsytheCorporal Forsythe
    Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    I'm gonna use this thread to point out that when I started university a few years ago, my math was so bad that I had to start back with 1+1 and 2+2

    last semester I completed proofs and this semester I finished Calc 3, next semester I'll have my minor in Math obtained

    whu sez mreenz r stupd
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    edited 2012-12-08 00:21:56
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    math can be used to prove anything

    even false things
  • Corporal ForsytheCorporal Forsythe
    Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
    Imipölex G said:

    math can be used to prove anything

    even false things

    you realize there's a realm of mathematics where all of these oddities go, right

    it's called quantum physics
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I've heard of it, sure. It's pretty trippy.
  • EelektrossEelektross
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