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 cryrst  The garden of England 27 Aug 19 6.50pm |
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Blown me away that one.
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Stirlingsays  27 Aug 19 6.54pm |
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Originally posted by cryrst
Na....starts with a round up and just compounds it.
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| cryrst The garden of England 27 Aug 19 6.57pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Na....starts with a round up and just compounds it. But surely it's there in black and white
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| Stirlingsays 27 Aug 19 7.18pm |
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Originally posted by cryrst
But surely it's there in black and white Maths is perhaps the greatest conceptual achievement of the human race.....without it the Israelis might never have had a failed moon landing.....and I'd have had one less chuckle.
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| Invalid user 2019 27 Aug 19 7.42pm |
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Originally posted by cryrst
But surely it's there in black and white
"Then what about 1.000... – 0.999...? You'll get an infinite string of zeroes. "But," you ask, "what about that '1' at the end?" Ah, but 0.999... is an infinite decimal; there is no "end", and thus there is no "1 at the end". The zeroes go on forever."
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| Stirlingsays 27 Aug 19 8.08pm |
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It's an explanation of semantics, I believe 0.999 is not 1. It's maths semantics. Edited by Stirlingsays (27 Aug 2019 8.12pm)
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| DanH SW2 27 Aug 19 8.18pm |
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There’s a lot in maths which doesn’t make ‘sense’ at face value. Get in to complex numbers - knowing there’s ‘imaginary’ numbers took me a while to get my head around.
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| Invalid user 2019 27 Aug 19 8.23pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
It's an explanation of semantics, I believe 0.999 is not 1. It's maths semantics. Edited by Stirlingsays (27 Aug 2019 8.12pm) It's 0.9 reoccurring, rather than 0.999. "Then what about 1.000... – 0.999...? You'll get an infinite string of zeroes. "But," you ask, "what about that '1' at the end?" Ah, but 0.999... is an infinite decimal; there is no "end", and thus there is no "1 at the end. The zeros go on forever". This is why it works across numerous proofs.
Edited by dollardays (27 Aug 2019 8.26pm)
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| Invalid user 2019 27 Aug 19 8.28pm |
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Originally posted by DanH
There’s a lot in maths which doesn’t make ‘sense’ at face value. My bank balance regularly attests to this!
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| Stirlingsays 27 Aug 19 8.36pm |
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Originally posted by dollardays
It's 0.9 reoccurring, rather than 0.999. "Then what about 1.000... – 0.999...? You'll get an infinite string of zeroes. "But," you ask, "what about that '1' at the end?" Ah, but 0.999... is an infinite decimal; there is no "end", and thus there is no "1 at the end. The zeros go on forever". This is why it works across numerous proofs.
Edited by dollardays (27 Aug 2019 8.26pm) It all comes down to whether you accept the existence of non-zero infinitesimals. Personally I find the idea that two numbers can equal the same value as faulty.....if 0.9999 = 1 then get rid of one of them....I view it as semantics. Maths uses symbols to represent how nature operates....It isn't a perfect representation of nature as we can't see the underlying 'code' as it were. Still, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
Edited by Stirlingsays (27 Aug 2019 8.37pm)
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| Invalid user 2019 27 Aug 19 8.41pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
It all comes down to whether you accept the existence of non-zero infinitesimals. Personally I find the idea that two numbers can equal the same value as faulty.....if 0.9999 = 1 then get rid of one of them....I view it as semantics. Maths uses symbols to represent how nature operates....It isn't a perfect representation of nature as we can't see the underlying 'code' as it were. Still, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong.
Edited by Stirlingsays (27 Aug 2019 8.37pm) It's just my take on it of course. While I enjoy and use a couple of areas of mathematics, I can certainly confirm that I'm not a mathematician by any means!
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