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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Awsome logic in the original original post.

On a totally unrelated note: whats the biggest number between 0 and 1 (0<x<1)?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be like 9.99 into infinity? ๐Ÿค” and since the human population (at least currently living) is not infinete, then at some 9.999999 there wouldn't be anyone with a higher value? (I don't know math)

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

0.9999... is equal to 1, so no

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

no, not really. In engineering math, sure but theoretical math it's not

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

What's 3 * 1/3? What's 3 * 0.3333333...?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is in theoretical math as well. I just woke up and don't know the proof by heart but there is a proof for 0.99 repeating being true equal to 1.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

0.999โ€ฆ = 1 in theory also.

Otherwise, there exists a ฮด such that 1 - ฮด = 0.999โ€ฆ

Then, the ฮด should have a first nonzero digit. Let us say it is in the millionth placd. But then, 0.999โ€ฆ cannot have a 9 in the millionth place.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Even in theoretical math, 0.999 repeating ends up being exactly equal to 1. In fact, any terminating decimal can be rewritten in a similar manner. For example, 0.25 is exactly equal to 0.24999999 repeating

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Liberals hate this one weird trick

[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The set of all living humans is finite, so (if sexuality is totally ordered) there is a gayest human. Edit:though they may not necessarily be unique.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

There are more than 0 people currently the gayest.