Anonymous
10/19/2025, 9:27:35 PM
No.16820984
>>16819041
I have the picture already made so I might as well post it. And if there was someone who genuinely believed that 0.999... wasn't 1, it would be interesting to talk to them about how real numbers work. I think schools do a bad job of covering this topic. But I didn't post for very long, and I agree the people posting this on /sci/ are almost entirely trolls.
Sometimes you get threads where the trolls are smarter and more knowledgeable than the midwits chiming in to correct them, and that can make for a fun thread. There was a good one a while ago where someone posted a definition of infinite decimals that made 0.999... undefined instead of equal to 1.
I don't see very many people in real life who insist that 0.999... = 1. Sometimes I see people who think 0.999... isn't 1, but they usually seem to accept that it is fairly quickly. I've seen more people stubbornly convinced of a fallacy in the opposite direction; they think that if you start with a positive number and repeatedly divide it by two, it will eventually reach zero.
I have the picture already made so I might as well post it. And if there was someone who genuinely believed that 0.999... wasn't 1, it would be interesting to talk to them about how real numbers work. I think schools do a bad job of covering this topic. But I didn't post for very long, and I agree the people posting this on /sci/ are almost entirely trolls.
Sometimes you get threads where the trolls are smarter and more knowledgeable than the midwits chiming in to correct them, and that can make for a fun thread. There was a good one a while ago where someone posted a definition of infinite decimals that made 0.999... undefined instead of equal to 1.
I don't see very many people in real life who insist that 0.999... = 1. Sometimes I see people who think 0.999... isn't 1, but they usually seem to accept that it is fairly quickly. I've seen more people stubbornly convinced of a fallacy in the opposite direction; they think that if you start with a positive number and repeatedly divide it by two, it will eventually reach zero.