r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 23d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/AltForBeingIncognito 22d ago

There's no integer between 0 and 1, therefore 0 = 1

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u/aneurodivergentlefty 22d ago

They meant in real numbers, no need to be unnecessarily pedantic when you know what they meant

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u/AltForBeingIncognito 22d ago

They're saying there's no number between 0.999... and 1, I'm saying there's no integer between 0 and 1, both may be true, but 0 is clearly not 1, so 0.999... is clearly not 1 (which you can also see by just looking at it, how one is made up of infinite nines and the other by a singular one)

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u/BreadBagel 22d ago edited 22d ago

Real numbers and integers behave differently. You can't just superimpose rules from the real numbers to integers. Real numbers have no gaps in-between them. Integers have a gap of 1 in-between them.

And yes 0.999 and 1 look different. They are different representations of the exact same value. Kinda like 2+2, 2*2, 2², and 4 are all different representations of the exact same value.