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.99999 does not equal 1

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Trekky0623

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #360 on: August 16, 2008, 10:56:32 PM »
There's no such than as 0.666...7.  You can't put a seven on the "end" of an infinite string of sixes.

0.666... = 2/3
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #361 on: August 16, 2008, 10:59:21 PM »
If you can't answer a yes/no question, how am I supposed to believe your witchdoctor math that NO OTHER MATHEMATICIAN AGREES WITH?!
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #362 on: August 16, 2008, 11:00:30 PM »
Quote from: narcberry on August 16, 2008, 10:59:21 PM
If you can't answer a yes/no question, how am I supposed to believe your witchdoctor math that NO OTHER MATHEMATICIAN AGREES WITH?!

Because you're a thickskulled douchebag who can't fucking read? Stick to your D&D forum game.
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #363 on: August 16, 2008, 11:06:44 PM »
Quote from: Hara Taiki on August 16, 2008, 11:00:30 PM
Quote from: narcberry on August 16, 2008, 10:59:21 PM
If you can't answer a yes/no question, how am I supposed to believe your witchdoctor math that NO OTHER MATHEMATICIAN AGREES WITH?!

Because you're a thickskulled douchebag who can't fucking read? Stick to your D&D forum game.
Yeah, can we find out how our actions went?
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #364 on: August 16, 2008, 11:11:54 PM »
My spell can cast nao?
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cbarnett97

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #365 on: August 17, 2008, 12:04:48 AM »
Quote from: Hara Taiki on August 16, 2008, 11:00:30 PM
Quote from: narcberry on August 16, 2008, 10:59:21 PM
If you can't answer a yes/no question, how am I supposed to believe your witchdoctor math that NO OTHER MATHEMATICIAN AGREES WITH?!

Because you're a thickskulled douchebag who can't fucking read? Stick to your D&D forum game.
Are you saying his calculator is wrong?
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Wendy

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #366 on: August 17, 2008, 08:36:59 AM »
ITT: crybabies whine over stupid people who don't know how basic mathematics work.
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #367 on: August 17, 2008, 09:01:34 AM »
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #368 on: August 17, 2008, 09:20:22 AM »
Quote from: Hara Taiki on August 16, 2008, 03:56:54 PM
Quote from: narcberry on August 16, 2008, 03:36:50 PM
You guys are so stupid.
First you start ridiculous claims like 0.999... = 1

What's next?
0.000...001 = 0?

Obviously you are incapable of watching a video.

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=1f79qe&s=4



lol are you retarded? where is the mathematical rigour in this? ::)
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cmdshft

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #369 on: August 17, 2008, 09:23:03 AM »
Quote from: Hara Taiki on August 16, 2008, 10:49:24 PM
No strawmen allowed, Cpt. Douchebag.
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Wendy

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #370 on: August 17, 2008, 10:03:33 AM »
Quote from: rodeoboy on August 17, 2008, 09:20:22 AM
Quote from: Hara Taiki on August 16, 2008, 03:56:54 PM
Quote from: narcberry on August 16, 2008, 03:36:50 PM
You guys are so stupid.
First you start ridiculous claims like 0.999... = 1

What's next?
0.000...001 = 0?

Obviously you are incapable of watching a video.

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=1f79qe&s=4



lol are you retarded? where is the mathematical rigour in this? ::)

You are the one who is refuting a well known mathematical fact. Who is really the retard, retard?
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Quote from: Wendy on December 31, 1969, 04:00:00 PM
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DigCamara

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #371 on: August 17, 2008, 05:56:39 PM »
Quote from: narcberry on August 16, 2008, 10:48:11 PM
Than you must agree that 2/3 = 0.666...6667 something that the previous two posters said is absurd!
Your grasp of common mathematical notation is truly appalling. Where have you seen anyone write a number like "0.666...6667"? What would that even mean? An indefinite amount of sixes after the point, followed by four sixes and a seven?

You're not making any sense, at all. Look at my last post, by the way. There I explain why, for bigger numbers, and for very small ones a common calculator cannot be trusted to give you the correct result. And that applies to repeating decimals, as well. More than once, in this very thread, people have told you that a calculator will make mistakes in these cases simply because it can't hold an indefinite number of bytes.
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mattc867

Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #372 on: August 17, 2008, 11:00:05 PM »
Theorem: 1=0.999...

Proof:  Set x=0.999...

10x=9.999...

Subtracting x from both sides of the equation

9x=9.000...

Divide by 9

x=1.000....

QED
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ZeonMagna

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #373 on: August 17, 2008, 11:35:23 PM »
Someone take Real analysis, it will help in your understanding that there is no such number called 0.0000000000...01 because that number would be infinitely small in magnitude.  Thus it would have no multiplicative inverse in the real numbers and thus is not a real number, QED by contradiction.  Also, the geometric series proof is spot on and the 1/3+1/3+1/3 are is a great number theory proof.
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Bushido

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« Reply #374 on: August 18, 2008, 09:55:16 AM »
Quote from: ZeonMagna on August 17, 2008, 11:35:23 PM
Someone take Real analysis, it will help in your understanding that there is no such number called 0.0000000000...01 because that number would be infinitely small in magnitude.  Thus it would have no multiplicative inverse in the real numbers and thus is not a real number, QED by contradiction.  Also, the geometric series proof is spot on and the 1/3+1/3+1/3 are is a great number theory proof.

So, 0 does not have a multiplicative inverse (just a fancy way of saying 1/0 does not exist). Does this mean that 0 is not a real number?
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #375 on: August 18, 2008, 10:02:04 AM »
this thread has brained my damage
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« Reply #376 on: August 18, 2008, 10:06:07 AM »
Your damage has threaded my brain.
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Trekky0623

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #377 on: August 18, 2008, 10:07:18 AM »
0.000...1 does not exist because, basically, you cannot put something at the end of infinity.  That's like trying to find a dead end in a circle.  It doesn't happen.
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CognitiveDissonance001

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #378 on: August 18, 2008, 03:52:15 PM »
Quote from: narcberry on August 16, 2008, 05:08:20 PM
This just in: no such thing as infinite 9's.

Really - Question for you Narcberry.

If I write 1 as 1.0...

How many zeroes can I put after the one?

By all means, I think we need to know the maximum precision of the number system according to narcberry.

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CognitiveDissonance001

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #379 on: August 18, 2008, 04:02:38 PM »
Quote from: narcberry on August 16, 2008, 10:48:11 PM
Than you must agree that 2/3 = 0.666...6667 something that the previous two posters said is absurd!

No, I would agree that 2/3 = 0.666... = 0.(6).

0.666...6667 is syntactically meaningless in mathematics, just like "grub the woods red ball" means nothing in English despite the fact that all the individual words are English words.

Well, I suppose it does mean something - repeated attempts to use a meaningless syntax indicate that narcberry is fundamentally illiterate (Innumerate?) in mathematics - since any proof that 0.(9) = 1 is going to require that the reader be mathematically competent, it's rather foolish to keep trying to do so.

narcberry is not, so let's move on.

CD

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DigCamara

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #380 on: August 18, 2008, 06:18:48 PM »
Quote from: CognitiveDissonance001 on August 18, 2008, 04:02:38 PM
Quote from: narcberry on August 16, 2008, 10:48:11 PM
Than you must agree that 2/3 = 0.666...6667 something that the previous two posters said is absurd!

No, I would agree that 2/3 = 0.666... = 0.(6).

0.666...6667 is syntactically meaningless in mathematics, just like "grub the woods red ball" means nothing in English despite the fact that all the individual words are English words.

Well, I suppose it does mean something - repeated attempts to use a meaningless syntax indicate that narcberry is fundamentally illiterate (Innumerate?) in mathematics - since any proof that 0.(9) = 1 is going to require that the reader be mathematically competent, it's rather foolish to keep trying to do so.

narcberry is not, so let's move on.

CD


Seconded.
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narcberry

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #381 on: August 19, 2008, 04:31:29 PM »
So now you guys are saying that 0.8888.. does equal 0.9999..

You guys should take math 101.
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Trekky0623

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #382 on: August 19, 2008, 04:33:37 PM »

Quote from: narcberry on August 19, 2008, 04:31:29 PM
So now you guys are saying that 0.8888.. does equal 0.9999..

You guys should take math 101.

0.888... = 8/9
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #383 on: August 19, 2008, 04:36:04 PM »
Quote from: Trekky0623 on August 19, 2008, 04:33:37 PM
0.888... = 8/9

You mean, 0.888 = 0.999 = 1.
You and your mathematical paradoxes...
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« Reply #384 on: August 19, 2008, 04:36:37 PM »
lolwut?
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narcberry

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #385 on: August 19, 2008, 04:39:28 PM »
I know, it's retarded.
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« Reply #386 on: August 19, 2008, 04:47:59 PM »
I was referring to your retardation.
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narcberry

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #387 on: August 19, 2008, 05:23:38 PM »
You guys might've had a point, up until the moment that Muffz took your side.
I can't wait to see Al Gore's new 0.999 = 1 campaign.
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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #388 on: August 19, 2008, 05:34:02 PM »
Quote from: narcberry on August 19, 2008, 05:23:38 PM
You guys might've had a point, up until the moment that Muffz took your side.
I can't wait to see Al Gore's new 0.999 = 1 campaign.
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Trekky0623

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Re: .99999 does not equal 1
« Reply #389 on: August 19, 2008, 06:28:43 PM »
0.111... = 1/9
0.222... = 2/9
0.333... = 3/9
0.444... = 4/9
0.555... = 5/9
0.666... = 6/9
0.777... = 7/9
0.888... = 8/9
0.999... = 9/9 = 1
1.111... = 1 1/9

etc...
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