https://old.reddit.com/r/confidentlyincorrect/comments/1b0iycz/999repeating_does_in_fact_equal_1/
!math !mathematics nerd slapfights
https://medium.com/@kenahlstrom/proof-that-99999-is-not-equal-to-1-5672e7dd58ce
Another day of Redditors being confused by high school math. Although to be fair, I still think proportionally the number of people who get it here is still higher than the general population.
I had meant for that to sound encouraging, but in hindsight actually that's terrifying.
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People who argue about this just don't understand how decimal representations of numbers work (or what, in fact, a number is). Once you have a basic understanding of those the result that 0.9999.... = 1 is pretty trivial.
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The problem is that you cant put the stupid hat on the 9 without doing keyboard wizardry so you cant use it to just override mathtards.
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Ermmm akshually it's only infinitely CLOSE to 1
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This is what they get for being a midwit. Smart enough to understand numbers are abstract, but not smart enough to really grasp what that means and that the numbers themselves are just representations of the reality.
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