Is 1 = 0.9999......

[DrPizza]

Semi-monthly bump to avoid reposts by new members
53 days to go before this thread's birthday, and it's been every bit as entertaining as the movie trivia and good night threads

 

[MattCo]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Semi-monthly bump to avoid reposts by new members 53 days to go before this thread's birthday, and it's been every bit as entertaining as the movie trivia and good night threads

I think the movie trivia thread was more entertaining. I agree that this is better than the good night one though.

 

[Jetblade]

WILL ALL YOU NERDS STEP AWAY FROM YOUR PC AND GO GET FVCKING LAID ALREADY!!!!

 

[new2AMD]

Cliff notes?

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: new2AMD
Cliff notes?

Cliffnotes:
Smart in math people claim .9999... (.9999repeating forever) equals exactly 1.
Not so smart at math people (and one or two claiming to be experts in math) and people who simply rely on their intuition for the problem disagree.

Plus, a few tangents, bickering, calls for the thread to be locked, never bumped again, and for everyone involved in this thread to go out and "GET FVCKING LAID ALREADY!!!! "
To Jetblade: many of us have, and we're back

 

[bleeb]

0.9999... != 1.

 

[Kyteland]

1 = 0.9999....

 

[bleeb]

Hey Kyteland,

Are you ever proud of the monstrousity of a thread you created?? I'm rather proud of this thread!

 

[Ninjja]

Originally posted by: maziwanka
i have now contributed to this thread

and so have I.

 

[JupiterJones]

Yes.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: bleeb
Hey Kyteland,

Are you ever proud of the monstrousity of a thread you created?? I'm rather proud of this thread!

If I am this thread's father, then you are undoubtedly it's uncle that nobody ever talks about.

 

[MadRat]

Funny how we're to believe that .999... = 1 when no other infinite pattern of digits in a decimal would. We are to believe the digit nine is a magic number in this way.

I for one still believes an infinitely small remainder is the difference between 1 and .999... making 1 <> .999... as true. There has not been one solid proof to show otherwise.

 

[matt426malm]

yes it is for all practical purposes

 

[mygumballs]

i've never hated anything more than how much i hate this thread.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: MadRat
Funny how we're to believe that .999... = 1 when no other infinite pattern of digits in a decimal would. We are to believe the digit nine is a magic number in this way.

I for one still believes an infinitely small remainder is the difference between 1 and .999... making 1 <> .999... as true. There has not been one solid proof to show otherwise.

Um, yes, there is another infinitely repeating decimal that equals 1. I'll let you figure out which one.

RossGr showed that if you add an infinitely small remainder to 0.999... you get something larger than 1. That's a nice solid proof.

 

[bleeb]

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: bleeb
Hey Kyteland,

Are you ever proud of the monstrousity of a thread you created?? I'm rather proud of this thread!

If I am this thread's father, then you are undoubtedly it's uncle that nobody ever talks about.

Geez, you don't have to be a prick about it.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Kyteland
Hey everybody! Go sign up for the new Anandtech beta forums and continue the debate there.

The thread: http://beta.fusetalk.com/enterprise/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=33&enterthread=y

I get redirected to an error message

 

[DaviDaVinci]

Originally posted by: bleeb

Originally posted by: Kyteland

Originally posted by: bleeb
Hey Kyteland,

Are you ever proud of the monstrousity of a thread you created?? I'm rather proud of this thread!

If I am this thread's father, then you are undoubtedly it's uncle that nobody ever talks about.

Geez, you don't have to be a prick about it.

That was funny. I rather say that .999! =~1

 

[Cuda1447]

I don't see how its possible... I mean... mathematically... but how can 2 unequal things be equal? Bah, stupid math!

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Cuda1447
I don't see how its possible... I mean... mathematically... but how can 2 unequal things be equal? Bah, stupid math!

They can't be. That's the whole basis of one version of the proof. If two things are not different, then they are the same. You can show there is no difference between the two numbers, therefore they must be the same.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Is this crap still going? LOL

 

[MadRat]

silverpig-

He may never have accepted the remainder of 1 at the infinite position, but that doesn't mean he proved anything.

 

[bleeb]

Face it people 0.9999.... != 1.

 

[Spooner]

0 = 0

 

[xirtam]

The real question is, if we can show that there's no such thing as .9999999... due to finite states of reality, does that mean that there is no "1"?