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2026-02-03 20:53 UTC
@sandyarmstrong@hachyderm.io @LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world
"I hope nobody takes any source as absolute truth" - Maths has proofs, therefore absolutely true. The page including the claim that 0.(9)=1 paradoxically includes the proof that it can never equal 1 - it's a hyperbola with an asymptote of 1 😂
"I disagree with your counterexample" - you can disagree all you want and you'll still be proven wrong by the Maths of infinite sums and hyperbolic graphs, both of which we teach to high school students
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@sandyarmstrong@hachyderm.io 2026-02-03 21:04
@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social @LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world yes, math has axiomatic truths. But a website (or a fedi post, for that matter) may not be accurate in discussing them. I think the wikipedia entry here is pretty clear that it is talking about real numbers, in which case 0.(9) is not a hyperbola, but is in fact a rational number, 1.