07-28-2008, 09:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-28-2008, 09:25 PM by SidVicious)
The first post was very clever and cool. It was kinda spoiled by the silly "God" reference though...
'Cos 0.99999 .... (recurring) IS equal to 1 when we the recursion is infinite... Essentially Peter's post could have been boiled down to
Quote:IDmad link=topic=11321.msg129931#msg129931 date=1216734781]
pff Peter hax how can x be 0.9999... and 1 at the same time?
'Cos 0.99999 .... (recurring) IS equal to 1 when we the recursion is infinite... Essentially Peter's post could have been boiled down to
Quote:1 = 0.9999... (recurring). It illustrates the idea of infinitesimally small decrements, i.e., 1 minus an infinitesimally small number is equal to 0.9999... (recurring). If you subtract an infinitesimally small number from another number it hasn't actually changed and is therefore still equal to the original number...