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

0.9999... is equal to 1, so no

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

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

[โ€“] matiamas 2 points 5 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

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