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minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-23 months agoSomehow I have the feeling that this is not going to convince people who think that 0.9999… /= 1, but only make them madder. Personally I like to point to the difference, or rather non-difference, between 0.333… and ⅓, then ask them what multiplying each by 3 is.
minus-squareBuglefingers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoThe thing is 0.333… And 1/3 represent the same thing. Base 10 struggles to represent the thirds in decimal form. You get other decimal issues like this in other base formats too (I think, if I remember correctly. Lol)
minus-squareDeanFogg@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·3 months agoCut a banana into thirds and you lose material from cutting it hence .9999
minus-squarewholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoThat’s not how fractions and math work though.
Somehow I have the feeling that this is not going to convince people who think that 0.9999… /= 1, but only make them madder.
Personally I like to point to the difference, or rather non-difference, between 0.333… and ⅓, then ask them what multiplying each by 3 is.
The thing is 0.333… And 1/3 represent the same thing. Base 10 struggles to represent the thirds in decimal form. You get other decimal issues like this in other base formats too
(I think, if I remember correctly. Lol)
Cut a banana into thirds and you lose material from cutting it hence .9999
That’s not how fractions and math work though.