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0.999... = 1


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  • 3 weeks later...
well, .3333.. is equal to 1/3 and .6666.... is equal to 2/3

so why wouldn't .9999.... be equal to 1?

0.3333.. is not equal to 1/3

You can't represent 1/3 in a plain number, its infinite. It just makes it easier to ignore the fact that they're different.

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I could swear this exact same conversation came up somewhere in the MTA world... long, long ago.

Punch .999999..... into a TI calc and you'll get 1. Its retarded math like imaginary numbers and stuff :P I guess we just aren't allowed to believe each numerical representation doesn't represent that exact value.

Its just like, for example, how a number can be infinitely small. .0000..........1. You'd have to think logically that there has to be only a certain amount of space between 1 and 0. Crazy stuff.

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sure, i posted it in #mta some time ago, that prolly why Aeron put it up here :P .

What they try to proof here is not that 0.999999999999 == 1 but that 0.9999 followed by an infinite number of 9s == 1.

0.33333... isn't a plain number, it is a never ending number, but it does equal 1/3. so 0.99999 (going on to the end of times) equals 1 .

Infinite is strange cause infinite - 1 == infinite again.

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0.333... = 1/3

3 * 0.333... = 3 * 1/3

0.33333... isn't a plain number, it is a never ending number, but it does equal 1/3.

then

0.3333.. is not equal to 1/3

You can't represent 1/3 in a plain number, its infinite. It just makes it easier to ignore the fact that they're different.

i said 0.33333... is equal to 1/3 , was i wrong? :shock:

i just want things to be clear, i got nothing agianst Jax

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0.333... = 1/3

3 * 0.333... = 3 * 1/3

0.33333... isn't a plain number, it is a never ending number, but it does equal 1/3.

then

0.3333.. is not equal to 1/3

You can't represent 1/3 in a plain number, its infinite. It just makes it easier to ignore the fact that they're different.

i said 0.33333... is equal to 1/3 , was i wrong? :shock:

i just want things to be clear, i got nothing agianst Jax

don't worry there's nothing wrong with hating jax. we all have our reasons

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