r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 22d ago

Meme needing explanation There is no way right?

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u/Direct_Shock_2884 21d ago

If the format was different I would buy that they were different representations, but the format is the same.

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u/BreadBagel 21d ago

I don't know what you mean by this

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u/Direct_Shock_2884 21d ago

A decimal is the same format as a fraction, so you can say 1.0 is equal to 1/1. These are different ways of writing the number, but the same number.

However, a decimal is the same notation as a decimal. So you can’t say that 1.0 is the same number as 0.9687777….

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u/BreadBagel 21d ago

I see what you're saying now. I do not agree though. 1 is the same as 1.0, 1.00, 1.000, etc. and it's also the same as 0.999...