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Totally agree. It bothered me when I was younger, though I had no idea how to explain why, but this should be deeply unsettling to everyone who encounters it:
by itishappy 2y ago
Totally agree. It bothered me when I was younger, though I had no idea how to explain why, but this should be deeply unsettling to everyone who encounters it:
1/4 = 0.25 exact
1/3 = 0.333... infinitely repeating approximation
- grandempire 2y agoOh that number? It’s just a Laurent series. Just take the limit of the partial sums.
- itishappy 2y ago1/1 a 1/2 ah 1/3 aH! 1/4 ahh 1/5 ah 1/6 ahH! 1/7 aHHHHHH! 1/8 ahhh 1/9 aH! 1/10 ah 1/11 aHH! 1/12 ahhH! 1/13 aHHHHHH! 1/14 ahHHHHHH! 1/15 ahH! 1/16 ahhhh 1/17 aHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! 1/18 ahH! 1/19 aHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! 1/20 ahh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal#Table_of_values https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal#Table_of_val...