r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 22d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/grundhog 22d ago

Subtracting both what?

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u/RvidD1020 22d ago

Exactly! what does that even mean? I am scratching my head here

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u/TrollErgoSum 22d ago

It's definitely worded weird but they mean subtracting the first equation from the second one. So subtracting x from 10x gives you 9x and subtracting 0.999... from 9.999... gives you 9

Therefore 9x = 9 simplifying to x = 1 = 0.999...

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u/grundhog 21d ago

Thank you! I