I appear to have encountered someone who does not believe in rational numbers...
" You are following non-division able mathematics as 2 cannot be properly divided by 3 and answer will be got 0.6666666666666…………….. no ending solution. We need solution and accept the answer as 0.66. You should be practical. "
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Hmmm. [The comments below include a prime example of someone claiming they're interested in truth but just want higher standard, where...
Wait, what?
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My sympathies. I've seen people get freaked out by the idea of repeating decimals myself, specifically 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3 expressed as decimals. I've seen people argue 'till they were blue in the face that 3/3 cannot equal 1 because there must be a difference between 0.9repeating and 1.
ReplyDeleteI believe in Jethro numbers. From the Beverly Hillbillies: "What comes after elventy eight, Jethro?" "Eleventy nine, Pa!"
ReplyDeleteWonder what he thinks about computer code that says A = A + 1
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