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nick_318is · 11-29-2005, 06:26 PM

Between this and the airplane thread my head hurts.

DEATH2000 · 11-29-2005, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by nick_318is

Between this and the airplane thread my head hurts.

What are u guys, math majors? how do u do this? I have no idea what the hell ur talking about half the time.

**komodo** · 11-29-2005, 07:01 PM

If they're not the same number (thus equal), then you should have no problem telling me 3 numbers that are between them, right? Considering if two numbers are different and not equal, there has to be an infinite number of numbers between those two.. right?

**brien4787** · 11-29-2005, 07:27 PM

You guys are retarded.

**xsperf** · 11-29-2005, 07:38 PM

it equals 1, known this for the longest time, no one ever believed me haha

**bmw4life** · 11-29-2005, 08:25 PM

How can two different numbers be equal? if .99999 was equal to one it would be one, not .999. I really don't know what I am talking about but I don't think they are equal.

**Red_Rocket** · 11-29-2005, 08:28 PM

who the FUCK CARES???? .99999999999 is close enough to 1, besides if some scientist was using this number he would have to round to significant digits and shit, so all the other 99999999999s wouldnt matter

**donald1476** · 11-29-2005, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by komodo

If they're not the same number (thus equal), then you should have no problem telling me 3 numbers that are between them, right? Considering if two numbers are different and not equal, there has to be an infinite number of numbers between those two.. right?

That doesn't mean it's the same number.

**Speedinfusion** · 11-29-2005, 10:20 PM

.99999 = stfu newbs wat a dumb argument...

and yes i am a math professor...

**donald1476** · 11-30-2005, 12:23 AM

.999... = V6 BMW . So you stfu noob.

**komodo** · 11-30-2005, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Numark318i

thi si sjust like that juming to a door thing.

stand ten feet from a door...then go half way there. you are at five feet. now go half way again...ur at 2.5 feet. go half way again...you will never theoretically make it to the door.

Xeno's Paradox.

**cainchapman** · 11-30-2005, 02:23 AM

Have a read of Douglas R. Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas, if you like arguments like this. It's brilliant. Also gives a good account of what the world would be like if Pi was rounded to 3.14 too.

**Speedinfusion** · 11-30-2005, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by donald1476

.999... = V6 BMW . So you stfu noob.

hahahahahahah

**delmarco** · 11-30-2005, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by komodo

Xeno's Paradox.

Zeno's paradox!

Xena was Hercules girlfriend on that godawful UPN tv show.

.99999 does not equal 1.

If it did then the science involved in Limitations and Calculus would never exist.

In Algebra and Spatial Geometry we round numbers off and don't really differentiate between whole numbers, real numbers and integers when rounding off our solution sets. So in the ideal classroom situation it is allowable to state that .9999 is equal 1.

But do you think in the real world the engineers that build bridges and skyscrapers do so with .9999 = 1 in mind...

If they did then there would be alot of dead people.

Read "Tour Of The Calculus" by Berlinksi or just take college Calculus 1 and you'll see why those terms are not equitable.

**Speedinfusion** · 11-30-2005, 09:40 PM

the square root of the pythagareon theorm minus the abstarct of a-b+c-4.5 divided by the sine of radicals in the cosine of equalities indirectly inhibits the microscopic invertabrets of humanaties butterflies...