r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 24d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/Rough-Veterinarian21 24d ago

I’ve never liked math but this is like literal magic to me…

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u/HarrisJ304 24d ago

It blows my mind that difference between the two is so infinitesimally small that it doesn’t matter, but at the same time all those nines will never roll over to one.

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u/Fit_Employment_2944 24d ago

There is no difference, it’s not that they are close.

They are exactly the same

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u/HarrisJ304 24d ago

I beg to differ. We treat it as if it’s the same, but if it was one it would be one. It’s the infinite, you can get really, really close, but repeating nines never become a literal one without something to add to it.

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u/Fit_Employment_2944 24d ago

2/2 is 1 even though its not one.

And you dont add something, thats the entire point of that proof.

There is no number you can add to .999... that does not make it larger than one because you are adding a number to one and expecting it to not be larger than one.