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Re: Some Clarifications

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SilentAvenger wrote:

1. This has been very well verified, .999~ does, indeed, equal 1. There is no point discussing this.

I've searched for proofs as well, and I haven't found one proof tha...

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[quote="Chris K"]The thing is, I think most people, no wait everyone, would agree that I was right and that I showed considerable patience in trying to explain something to you, coming equations and p...

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tanner wrote:

ok i think it may be time to lock this thread

agreed.
Although I'm sure I'll continue to hear the repercussions of this in other threads (I've already read mocking comments...

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Chris K wrote:

A calculator will simply get close to 0.5

So sin rounds the value to 0.5?

[quote][b]YOU DO NOT NEED TO CALCULATE THE INFINITE SERIES TO KNOW THAT IT WILL COME TO 0.5!!!!![...

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[quote="tanner"]i think we may be at the crux of the matter --- pure mathematics does not claim to be *practical* ---- it is engineers and physicists who insist on applying mathematics to the *real* w...

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Chris K wrote:

Sine works like this:
- You input a number
- An infinite amount of little numbers are added up
- The sum of these is outputted

Chris... Chris... listen. You're not pro...

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[quote="tanner"]as for definitions of numbers they are part and parcel to mathematics and need not apply outside of mathematics

you are of course free to create a new disapline called "thebruces ma...

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again, I'm not disagreeing with anything in any of the mathematics shown here. What we're doing now is arguing definitions, not arguing calculatable math. We're arguing the definition of a number. ...

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neon snake wrote:

I think for someone without the same grounding, the idea that 0.9recurring is the same number as 1 probably is quite bewildering.

I don't think it takes years of underst...

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[quote="Chris K"]

Quote:

They don't offer proof that 0.49~->0.5 so 0.49~=5

Just another piece of gibberish, I'm afraid. You seem to have some trouble in understanding what an infinite series i...

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SilentAvenger wrote:

thebruce, I'm sorry to tell you, but 0.999~ = 1.

I will display the proof again.

*sigh* I'm sorry to tell you, but we've already gone over that, and I already addr...

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[quote="Chris K"]Firstly, you have said a lot of stuff that is absolutely completely wrong (such as sin being a 'lookup' function and sin being 'an infinite series that is always between -1 and 1') - ...

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one quick final... in simple terms
from the equations above.

"the sum of 1/n where n = 1 to X + (1/X) = 1" is true
"the sum of 1/n where n = 1 to infinity = 1" is not true
"the sum of 1/n where...

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ok, got the 2 pics... nothing special really... this was after half the people left for the night, leaving 7 of us...