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2026-02-03 21:04 UTC
@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.
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@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social 2026-02-03 21:09
@sandyarmstrong@hachyderm.io @LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world "yes, math has axiomatic truths" - and literal proofs. "may not be accurate in discussing them" - Maths textbooks are, none of which were referenced by the Wiki article. "it is talking about real numbers" - yep "in which case 0.(9) is not a hyperbola, but is in fact a rational number, 1" - no, it is in fact 0.(9). It can never equal 1 unless you add a 0.000...0001 to it, but the last digit is always a 9, and add another 9, and add another 9, and...