.99999 does not equal 1

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #60 on: August 10, 2008, 06:20:09 PM »
Did you look at the sources I provided earlier, cbarnett, that showed that you were wrong about .333... not being equal to 1/3?

He also sounds like he is calling all electronic calculators (my iPod touch included) liars.

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #61 on: August 10, 2008, 10:51:36 PM »
Well I guess we can wrap this one up.
Sorry you guys couldn't prove me wrong.

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #62 on: August 11, 2008, 12:11:04 AM »
You weren't wrong, narc. .99999 doesn't equal one, and we all agree to that. We just hi-jacked your topic to talk about basic maths. ;)
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #63 on: August 11, 2008, 02:10:06 AM »
He also sounds like he is calling all electronic calculators (my iPod touch included) liars.

Never mind mathematical fancies, why do you own an iPod?
I'm going to side with the white supremacists.

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #64 on: August 11, 2008, 03:49:49 AM »
Because Zunes are shit.
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #65 on: August 11, 2008, 08:12:41 AM »
He also sounds like he is calling all electronic calculators (my iPod touch included) liars.

Never mind mathematical fancies, why do you own an iPod?

Because Zunes are shit.

QFT.

Also, I love the multitouch interface, coupled with a UNIX based OS that once slightly modified, is probably the most powerful and useful handheld device out there. It's not just an mp3 player to me, it's more like a PDA. I can do basically anything with it.

Plus, playing Quake and Super Mario Brothers on it is a lot of fun.

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #66 on: August 11, 2008, 08:34:56 AM »
Also, I love the multitouch interface, coupled with a UNIX based OS that once slightly modified, is probably the most powerful and useful handheld device out there. It's not just an mp3 player to me, it's more like a PDA. I can do basically anything with it.

Plus, playing Quake and Super Mario Brothers on it is a lot of fun.

I also have something that fits in my hand and is a lot of fun. It goes with me everywhere and best of all, I've never had to pay a cent for it!
I'm going to side with the white supremacists.

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #67 on: August 11, 2008, 08:41:33 AM »
Also, I love the multitouch interface, coupled with a UNIX based OS that once slightly modified, is probably the most powerful and useful handheld device out there. It's not just an mp3 player to me, it's more like a PDA. I can do basically anything with it.

Plus, playing Quake and Super Mario Brothers on it is a lot of fun.

I also have something that fits in my hand and is a lot of fun. It goes with me everywhere and best of all, I've never had to pay a cent for it!

I thought the same until one day...

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #68 on: August 11, 2008, 10:59:36 AM »
When something ugly and screaming dropped out of the woman you love?
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #69 on: August 11, 2008, 02:46:48 PM »
When something cute and quiet, but expensive dropped out of the woman you loved?

Fix'd for accuracy.

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #70 on: August 11, 2008, 02:52:44 PM »
Dude. That's harsh. You didn't even love this woman?
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #71 on: August 11, 2008, 03:22:58 PM »
I loved her, but no more. That was the meaning behind it.

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #72 on: August 11, 2008, 03:40:14 PM »
And now you're stuck with alimony?
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #73 on: August 11, 2008, 03:54:34 PM »
No.

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #74 on: August 11, 2008, 03:59:09 PM »
Party!  8)

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'mirite?
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #75 on: August 11, 2008, 04:05:12 PM »
Not really.

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #76 on: August 11, 2008, 04:06:04 PM »
:( This is sad topic.
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #77 on: August 11, 2008, 04:08:41 PM »
Learn when to quit, bud.

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #78 on: August 11, 2008, 04:17:39 PM »

Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #79 on: August 11, 2008, 04:49:26 PM »
Yes there is! It's just even smaller. T'would be 0.0000...1.
Even if he were right, which he's not, that still wouldn't be right.  .000001 isn't between .9999 and 1, not would it be taken infinite digits.  And .333... = 1/3, 3*(1/3) = .999... There's really no use debating this.  How would you express the number between .999... and 1 anyway?

By the way, the limit guy is wrong, too.  It's not a limit, it's the same number.

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #80 on: August 11, 2008, 04:52:01 PM »
1=1. Nothing else=1. Only 1=1. -1^2=1, but then again, -1^2 is 1, so you'd really just be rephrasing 1=1.
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #81 on: August 11, 2008, 04:59:59 PM »
That's the beauty of it, general. -12=1 because -12 is one, and the same goes for .9[repeat]=1. :) I'm glad we agree. Nothing other than one is equal to one.
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #82 on: August 11, 2008, 05:02:33 PM »
0.9999... isn't an equation which, when simplified, equals one. It's just a number that doesn't. (equal one.)
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #83 on: August 11, 2008, 05:05:46 PM »
Right, then find the number between it and one. (I propose that we dub the number with a symbol of some kind.. € <--- that one, maybe?)
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #84 on: August 11, 2008, 05:09:33 PM »
Right, then find the number between it and one. (I propose that we dub the number with a symbol of some kind.. € <--- that one, maybe?)
I will give you a whole bunch: any number greater 0.9999< x >1

Now pick any "x" you want and as long as it satisfies those conditions then you have your number
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #85 on: August 11, 2008, 05:12:49 PM »
0.9999....(1-9)
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #86 on: August 11, 2008, 05:13:30 PM »
The thing is that it doesn't work that way if you have an infinite amount of nines. Infinity plus one is just infinity again. You can't put something at the end of infinity. Your sig does ring true., cbarnett.
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #87 on: August 11, 2008, 05:14:35 PM »
There is no such thing as infinity. In this case, "infinity" is when your finger starts to hurt.
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #88 on: August 11, 2008, 05:17:30 PM »
I know there is no such thing as infinity, but this is a theoretical equation. I didn't say that 0.<insert finite amount of nines here> was equal to one, it has to be an infinite amount.
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #89 on: August 11, 2008, 05:21:34 PM »
It still isn't.
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