.9999999999... = 1 »

Posted by: newhotness 2 years, 3 months ago

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Every year I get a few kids in my classes who argue with me on this. And there are arguers all over the web. And I just know I'm going to get contentious "but it just can't be true" whiners in my comments. But I feel obliged to step into this fray.

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Trey
June 20, 2006, 1:34 p.m.
This is great, I laughed out loud.
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SFL_ORG_News_Center
June 20, 2006, 1:41 p.m.
Insanity and just plan wrong and not worth the time to express...
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jtintle
June 20, 2006, 1:41 p.m.
I wonder how many people are going to read all the comments....
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alrightpeter
June 20, 2006, 3:50 p.m.
Hilarious...
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Jordan
June 20, 2006, 7:14 p.m.
I read a lot of comments on the blog entry and was unconvinced, but Wikipedia's article on it is fairly comprehensive:
Proof that 0.999... equals 1
http://tinyurl.com/ovbql
I'm still not totally sold, but the article is a good read.
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bugmenot
June 20, 2006, 10:31 p.m.
like i've always said .. "math is flawed!!"
emc^2
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bugmenot
June 20, 2006, 10:33 p.m.
crap you remove my greater than less than
e!=mc^2
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bugmenot
June 20, 2006, 10:33 p.m.
crap you remove my greater than less than
e!=mc^2
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jtintle
June 21, 2006, 4:30 a.m.
You should take a look at this comment by the author:
http://pol...
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jtintle
June 21, 2006, 4:30 a.m.
ok how about this link:
http://tinyurl.com/enq5d