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Mothematician post (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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This little guy craves the light of knowledge and wants to know why 0.999... = 1. He wants rigour, but he does accept proofs starting with any sort of premise.

Enlighten him.

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[–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

if 0.333... = 1/3 then 0.999... = 3/3 = 1

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    lots of good proofs in this thread but this one gets points for being by FAR the shortest while still being completely based on intuition and makes complete sense with an average high school mathematics background

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