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Originally Posted by Quagmire
How often do you burn your lips when sucking on that crack pipe?
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Lets day you have a pie.
please try and split 100 up in 3 equally large pieces.
The good old way even you must have learned back in elementary school
100 / 3
Goes 3 times, we now have 10 left.
10 / 3
Goes 3 times, we now have 1 left
1 / 3
Goes 3 times we now have 0.1 left
0.1 / 3
Goes 3 times, we now have 0.01 left
and so on into infinity.
So the decimal representatoin for 1/3 is 0.333....(infinite 3s)
Let's see what we get when we multiply that with 3.
0.999... (infinite 9s) er 1.
Some may think that the representation suck but it is never the less the system we use everyday.
In this system 0.999... (infinite) represents 1 as well as 1 does
1 = 3/3
Devide by 3
0.333...(infinite) = 1/3
Multiply by 3
0.999...(infinite) = 3/3
1 and 0.999...(infinite) is the same
It's not something I am making up, just pointing out that almost no one seems to understand the system we use everyday.
0.999... IS NOT CLOSE TO 1, it IS 1.