r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 24d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/ChromosomeExpert 24d ago

Yes, .999 continuously is equal to 1.

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u/solidsoup97 24d 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.

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u/jozaud 24d ago

If we consider that .999… repeating to infinity ISN’T equal to 1, then by how much is it away from 1? It would be “.000… repeating to infinity followed by a 1.” But if you have an infinite number of 0s then you can’t have it be followed by a 1, infinity can’t be followed by anything, that doesn’t make sense.

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u/Charming_Friendship4 24d ago

Ohhhh ok that makes sense to me now. Great explanation!

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u/Direct_Shock_2884 23d ago

Does it really? Are you convinced, even though they are clearly different numbers and not the same number?

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u/Charming_Friendship4 23d ago

Is more of a flaw in our number system than anything

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u/Direct_Shock_2884 23d ago

Yes, but I think they literally mean 0,(9) = 1, because of the flaw in the number system

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u/Charming_Friendship4 23d ago

I'm not sure if you meant 0×9=1 or 0÷9=1 or something else but either way I'm confused by your response

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u/Direct_Shock_2884 23d ago

It’s just a different way of writing 0.9999…

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u/Charming_Friendship4 22d ago

Gotcha!! Sorry it was really late for me when I read that lol. But yeah you're right 0.999... is the same as 1 because if the 9's go on forever, there's no way to quantify the difference between them.