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Post by Eva Yojimbo on May 3, 2020 22:48:44 GMT
A) No, obviously not. There may, indeed, be no practical difference, but no practical difference doesn't mean no real difference. Actually it is. If the decimal expansion of 1/3 is 0.33333.... then 3*(1/3) is 0.9999999... which is one. Good point. I guess for actual repeating infinities of the kind you get with pure numbers that is probably true, but if you took to actually enumerating extremely large numbers, like the number of particles in the universe (which, IIRC, is something like 10^80 in the observable universe), if you imagine all but one you'd get an extremely large repeating ".9999" number that wouldn't actually equal 1.
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