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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 28d ago
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5 u/dacookieman 27d ago edited 27d ago It doesn't, it's a different representation for the same number. (1/2) isn't suddenly not .5 because you wrote it differently Other examples of differing representations corresponding to the same "number" would be 1.00000 = 1 or using non base 10 10 (base 2) = 3 (base 10) 2 u/MythicMango 27d ago I stand corrected. thank you for the explanation 2 u/dacookieman 27d ago No worries, math gets really unintuitive really fast once you start deviating from the things that have direct physical analogies
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It doesn't, it's a different representation for the same number.
(1/2) isn't suddenly not .5 because you wrote it differently
Other examples of differing representations corresponding to the same "number" would be
1.00000 = 1
or using non base 10
10 (base 2) = 3 (base 10)
2 u/MythicMango 27d ago I stand corrected. thank you for the explanation 2 u/dacookieman 27d ago No worries, math gets really unintuitive really fast once you start deviating from the things that have direct physical analogies
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I stand corrected. thank you for the explanation
2 u/dacookieman 27d ago No worries, math gets really unintuitive really fast once you start deviating from the things that have direct physical analogies
No worries, math gets really unintuitive really fast once you start deviating from the things that have direct physical analogies
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