Re: How good is you math? 0.999... = 1
Originally Posted by HebrewHamr
Originally Posted by GnarfOriginally Posted by slainveteranyes, but with 0.999... the digits are repeating to infinity. as such, when you type 9.999... that also repeats into infinity.
0.999... - 9.999.... is 9 as there are the same, infinite number of 9's after the decimal place.
adding 3 to infinity does not make infinity larger. infinity is a non-finite number.
Bleh. By the same logic, just with less beating about the bush to throw people off:
infinity + 3 = infinity
infinity + 1 = infinity
1 = 3
Infinity is bullshit
He makes a good point.
actually, he doesnt. You cannot prove anything when using infinity as part of the equation.
I am not doing that... I am using a number which has an infinite number of decimal digits. Pi is a number which has an infinite number of decimal digits. You cannot write down an accurate value of Pi on a piece of paper. You can write down a formula to work it out, but you cannot write down Pi itself.
What i am saying is, i can multiply a number with an infinite number of digits by any non-zero number, and the new value will still have an infinite number of digits.
Originally Posted by Tonjevic
You posted this just to spite me, didn't you vet.
I'll post a little exerpt from the IRC to enlighten you as to my views on infinity...
Originally Posted by IRC...
[17:10:37] <@slainvet|ill> ok then... new method to show it...
[17:10:50] <@slainvet|ill> 10 x 0.999... = 9.999... yes?
[17:10:59] <Tonjevic> indeed
[17:11:20] <@slainvet|ill> ok, lets set a variable, c = 0.999...
[17:11:42] <@slainvet|ill> so, 10c = 9.999... correct?
[17:11:47] <Tonjevic> ya
[17:04:43] <Cevius[Lurk]> you only need three of them to make up 1 again
[17:04:54] <Tonjevic> therefore, 0.3333... * 3 = 0.9999...
[17:05:03] <@slainvet|ill> yes.
[17:05:04] <Cevius[Lurk]> with 0.333... it is not one third
[17:12:11] <@slainvet|ill> ok, 10c - c = 9.999... - 0.9999.... yes?
[17:12:39] <Tonjevic> :|
[17:12:41] <Tonjevic> noes!
[17:12:48] <Tonjevic> it can't be right!
[17:12:51] <@slainvet|ill> how is that wrong?
[17:12:53] * Tonjevic tears his own face off
[17:13:27] <@slainvet|ill> 0.999... = 1
...
Ok. Maybe not so little. So ban me.
Tonjevic, I got you to work it out. It is true. Why else would you tear your face off?
I has a flavour
Re: How good is you math? 0.999... = 1
10 x 0.999... = 9.999...
c = 0.999...
10c = 9.999...
10c - c = 9.999... - 0.999...
9c = 9
c = 1
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This is what i did after those steps
d = 1
c = d
10d = 9.999...
10d-d = 9.999...-d
10d-d=9.9999...-1
9d=8.999...
9c=8.999....
c=8.999.../9 therefore c does not equal 1
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Another way of doing it
c=.999...
10 x .999...=9.999...
10 x c=9.999...
c=.999
c = 0.999...
10c = 9.999...
10c - c = 9.999... - 0.999...
9c = 9
c = 1
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This is what i did after those steps
d = 1
c = d
10d = 9.999...
10d-d = 9.999...-d
10d-d=9.9999...-1
9d=8.999...
9c=8.999....
c=8.999.../9 therefore c does not equal 1
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Another way of doing it
c=.999...
10 x .999...=9.999...
10 x c=9.999...
c=.999
Re: How good is you math? 0.999... = 1
Originally Posted by Patrick
10 x 0.999... = 9.999...
c = 0.999...
10c = 9.999...
10c - c = 9.999... - 0.999...
9c = 9
c = 1
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This is what i did after those steps
d = 1
c = d
10d = 9.999...
10d-d = 9.999...-d
10d-d=9.9999...-1
9d=8.999...
9c=8.999....
c=8.999.../9 therefore c does not equal 1
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Another way of doing it
c=.999...
10 x .999...=9.999...
10 x c=9.999...
c=.999
10d = 10
I has a flavour
