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Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 year agoI’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 1 year 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…