[OOC] Myriad Reality

[Webmaster]

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OH DUH OF COURSE THEY HAVE A SIMILAR PRIME FACTORISATIOn
They're all divisible by 142857.

@Balance

Mmmmmmmhm.

[Balance]

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Mmmmmmmhm.

@Webmaster

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11 isn't anywhere near as cool. Its fractional oddities begin and end with the fact that they're all divisible by 9. Although...
9/11 = 0.81818181...
10/11 = 0.90909090...
11/11 = 0.99999999...

[Webmaster]

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am stoppid

11 isn't anywhere near as cool. Its fractional oddities begin and end with the fact that they're all divisible by 9. Although...
9/11 = 0.81818181...
10/11 = 0.90909090...
11/11 = 0.99999999...

@Balance

Except it's not .999999999..., the same way 1/3 != .3333333.... It's an estimate.

[Balance]

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Except it's not .999999999..., the same way 1/3 != .3333333.... It's an estimate.

@Webmaster

I'm just sayin'. It's a nice pattern.
although um why is it an estimate

[Webmaster]

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I'm just sayin'. It's a nice pattern.
although um why is it an estimate

@Balance

We went through this. You cannot get a base-ten number equal to a third.

[Balance]

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We went through this. You cannot get a base-ten number equal to a third.

@Webmaster

???
I don't remember us doing so.

[Webmaster]

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???
I don't remember us doing so.

@Balance

We got into a huge PM fight about it.

[whizzball1]

Ooh, this is cool.

5/7 = 0.714285
6/7 = 0.857142
7/7 = 0.999999

11/13 = 0.846153...
12/13 = 0.923076...
13/13 = 0.999999...

Even if it's not proof, it's nice to think about.

[whizzball1]

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We got into a huge PM fight about it.

@Webmaster

Well I know that, but I don't remember how you explained the whole 1/3 = 0.333333... thing is an estimate.

[whizzball1]

pretty number <3

[Webmaster]

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Well I know that, but I don't remember how you explained the whole 1/3 = 0.333333... thing is an estimate.

@whizzball1

The very fact that it continues forever proves that it's not exact. .3333... != 1/3 in the same way that
(1/3 * 3 == 3/3 == 1) != (.33333... * 3 == .99999999...). By definition, .99999... != 1, as it is infinitesimally less than one, but to the degree that it is essentially 1. But no matter what point at, and how many digits out you go, .999999... isn't 1.

[whizzball1]

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The very fact that it continues forever proves that it's not exact. .3333... != 1/3 in the same way that
(1/3 * 3 == 3/3 == 1) != (.33333... * 3 == .99999999...). By definition, .99999... != 1, as it is infinitesimally less than one, but to the degree that it is essentially 1. But no matter what point at, and how many digits out you go, .999999... isn't 1.

@Webmaster

I always saw something like 0.333333... as representing the whole forever, just like the infinity sign represents all of infinity. I would suppose that it's an axiom problem, since you can either see a repeating decimal with a ... as representing the exact, forever-going value, or as "it goes on forever".

If, and only if, 0.333333 represents the exact value of 1/3, then, and only then, does the proof hold true.

[Webmaster]

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I always saw something like 0.333333... as representing the whole forever, just like the infinity sign represents all of infinity. I would suppose that it's an axiom problem, since you can either see a repeating decimal with a ... as representing the exact, forever-going value, or as "it goes on forever".

If, and only if, 0.333333 represents the exact value of 1/3, then, and only then, does the proof hold true.

@whizzball1

No, the proof serves to demonstrate that it's not.

By the way, momentum isn't enough to mess up what's going on there. The alley's not that faulty =P

[whizzball1]

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No, the proof serves to demonstrate that it's not.

By the way, momentum isn't enough to mess up what's going on there. The alley's not that faulty =P

@Webmaster

I am not humoured by this.

[Webmaster]

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I am not humoured by this.

@whizzball1

I know, but it becomes important later.

[souleaterfan320]

Can't wait to get off work.

Also, tell Sven to get back on.

[whizzball1]

Can't wait to get off work.

Also, tell Sven to get back on.

@souleaterfan320

because we can totally do that
EDIT: Oh hey, he's here anyway.

[Galaxy Raider]

Can't wait to get off work.

Also, tell Sven to get back on.

@souleaterfan320

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because we can totally do that
EDIT: Oh hey, he's here anyway.

@whizzball1

Yee. I had to do the condition of the ing.

[whizzball1]

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Yee. I had to do the condition of the ing.

@Galaxy Raider

Conditioning what?

[Galaxy Raider]

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Conditioning what?

@whizzball1

For soccer.