can 0.3• + 0.3• + 0.3• be really be added to equal 0.9• the same way that 0.3 + 0.3 + 0.3 = 0.9 though? and if so, is it proven or assumed? im not saying ur wrong btw, just asking. and does 0.000…001 equal 0?
I’m not a math person at all, so I’m not really debating your proof, but it seems to me that if 0.9• = 1, then what does 0.1• equal? It “fits” perfectly into the “space” between 0.9• and 1, but if 0.9•=1 then 0.1• should equal 0, right? Except it doesn’t, because 0.1<0.1• and 0.1 definitely isn’t 0.
I definitely understand why some religious people think numbers are a tool of Satan.
Andonno@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not really.
1/3 = 0.3•
1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 0.3• + 0.3• + 0.3•
3/3 = 0.9•
1 = 0.9•
And that’s only one proof, there are others.
lseif@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
can 0.3• + 0.3• + 0.3• be really be added to equal 0.9• the same way that 0.3 + 0.3 + 0.3 = 0.9 though? and if so, is it proven or assumed? im not saying ur wrong btw, just asking. and does 0.000…001 equal 0?
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
0.3• has infinte decimals, 0.0000…001 does not. No matter how many zeroes you put before the one, it will never be infinite, so it’s not equal to 0.
You simply cannot have “Infinity + 1” decimals, since infinity + 1 = infinity.
lseif@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
okay…i dont understand but ill trust you
Tedesche@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not a math person at all, so I’m not really debating your proof, but it seems to me that if 0.9• = 1, then what does 0.1• equal? It “fits” perfectly into the “space” between 0.9• and 1, but if 0.9•=1 then 0.1• should equal 0, right? Except it doesn’t, because 0.1<0.1• and 0.1 definitely isn’t 0.
I definitely understand why some religious people think numbers are a tool of Satan.
PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 11 months ago
It’s infinite ones - as you expand it, the illusion offered by the single digit disappears. 0.999 + 0.111 is 1.11, so 0.999… + 0.111… is 1.111…