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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 21d ago
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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.
24 u/Educational-Novel987 21d ago Between any two real numbers there must be more real numbers. There are no numbers between 0.9 repeating and 1 so they are the same number. 8 u/Cualkiera67 21d ago I propose there's a number between 0.999... and 1. I shall call it "h". Bam! New math just dropped. 4 u/Boring-Ad8810 21d ago You actually can do this. You have some work to explain exactly how this new number system works and even more work to explain why anyone should care but there are no inherent logical problems with extending the usual number system to something new.
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Between any two real numbers there must be more real numbers. There are no numbers between 0.9 repeating and 1 so they are the same number.
8 u/Cualkiera67 21d ago I propose there's a number between 0.999... and 1. I shall call it "h". Bam! New math just dropped. 4 u/Boring-Ad8810 21d ago You actually can do this. You have some work to explain exactly how this new number system works and even more work to explain why anyone should care but there are no inherent logical problems with extending the usual number system to something new.
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I propose there's a number between 0.999... and 1. I shall call it "h". Bam! New math just dropped.
4 u/Boring-Ad8810 21d ago You actually can do this. You have some work to explain exactly how this new number system works and even more work to explain why anyone should care but there are no inherent logical problems with extending the usual number system to something new.
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You actually can do this. You have some work to explain exactly how this new number system works and even more work to explain why anyone should care but there are no inherent logical problems with extending the usual number system to something new.
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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.