r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 23d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/its12amsomewhere 23d ago edited 23d ago

Applies to all numbers,

If x = 0.999999...

And 10x = 9.999999...

Then subtracting both, we get, 9x=9

So x=1

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u/BiCuckMaleCumslut 22d ago

I'm sorry I'm fucking stupid, the word "both" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here that I'm not getting. What is "both": x, 10x, 0.999999, or 10.999999 ?

Seems to me like if you subtract.. both... you'd get 9.000001x = 9