Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 12 days agoKid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshitlemmy.worldimagemessage-square274fedilinkarrow-up1984arrow-down131
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minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 days ago3 times 0.333 is 0.999 not 1. Saying it equals 1 may be a common engineering convention, but it is mathematically incorrect. There is no failure of notation if fractions are used, which is why I gave this example of usefulness.
minus-squareJamablaya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 days agoYou knows when a person informs you of a convention people use to solve a problem created by notation, you could just fucking learn instead of arguing stupidity.
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 days agoYour chosen notation solves nothing. Try Representing 3227/555 using 4 trailing dots. I started here by showing how fractions are useful. You are the ignorant aggressor, trying to fight centuries of mathematicians by claiming decimals are always better.
minus-squareJamablaya@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agodo…do you even know where you are right now?
minus-squareKnock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoSame place as you, doing the same thing.
3 times 0.333 is 0.999 not 1.
Saying it equals 1 may be a common engineering convention, but it is mathematically incorrect.
There is no failure of notation if fractions are used, which is why I gave this example of usefulness.
You knows when a person informs you of a convention people use to solve a problem created by notation, you could just fucking learn instead of arguing stupidity.
Your chosen notation solves nothing. Try Representing 3227/555 using 4 trailing dots.
I started here by showing how fractions are useful.
You are the ignorant aggressor, trying to fight centuries of mathematicians by claiming decimals are always better.
do…do you even know where you are right now?
Same place as you, doing the same thing.