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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; reed13

Are we discussing different posts?
Who posted the faction problem?
Reed?


433 posted on 03/12/2018 4:59:37 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel; reed13k
At post 333, reed13k said ... "I always enjoyed .9999... to infinity is =1"

Cletus.D.Yokel appeared to disagree, saying that there was inquality. Approaches one, but never getting there.

The conundrum is caused by taking a rational number, a fraction for example 1/3, and trying to conform it to a decimal fraction. The result is a "repeating decimal," basically an awkward way of stating what is more simply stated in original form, "1/3."

439 posted on 03/12/2018 5:07:58 PM PDT by Cboldt
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