Post #2945262
2026-02-03 21:19 UTC
@sandyarmstrong@hachyderm.io @LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world
"skimming" - not learning
"It looks to me like we aren't going to make any further progress in this conversation" - you can't contradict centuries of proven Maths, no. You can choose to learn about it or not (in fact it would've been taught to you already in high school, as proven by the Maths textbooks).
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@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social 2026-02-03 21:21
@sandyarmstrong@hachyderm.io @LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world P.S. ""1/3 and 0.(3) AREN'T the same number" - go read the part of my thread about Base number systems, and you'll discover why it's literally impossible to represent 1/3 exactly in Base 10. We can represent it exactly in Base 3 - 0.1 - but not in Base 10, which is precisely why it's infinitely recurring. All infinitely recurring numbers are only approximations, hence why we use limits as a substitute for them when we need to do arithmetic with them.