"Ary Borenszweig" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "downs" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>> </obscure nerd culture joke>
>>
>> Neon Genesis? (I haven't seen enough of that show to recognize any
>> 0.99.99 in it though, or maybe I'm just guessing wrong - or overthinking
>> it ;) )
>
> Maybe because they workers in nerv would say 0.000000000000000000000001...
> but that's the opposite of 0.999999999999999999999999... maybe...
(Courtesy of my 8th grade math teacher):
[ identity ]
1 == 1
[ / 3 ]
1/3 == 0.333...
[ * 3 ]
3/3 == 0.999...
[ simplify ]
1 == 0.999...
Also:
1 - 0.000000000000000000000001
= 0.999999999999999999999990
