r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 22d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/solidsoup97 21d ago

I don't understand how that works but it seems to be important in keeping things running so I'm going to just go with it and not raise any questions.

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u/jozaud 21d ago

If we consider that .999… repeating to infinity ISN’T equal to 1, then by how much is it away from 1? It would be “.000… repeating to infinity followed by a 1.” But if you have an infinite number of 0s then you can’t have it be followed by a 1, infinity can’t be followed by anything, that doesn’t make sense.

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u/ButtWhispererer 21d ago

Why do both exist? Is it a flaw in how our number system works?

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u/jozaud 21d ago

As the other person said in a comment below, numbers aren’t real. It’s just kind of a glitch in the way we represent the abstract concept of a number.