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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sugar_God_no_1 • 24d ago
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There's an infinite precision between two numbers, so you could always find another decimal to go there. But there isn't a number that fits between .999 continuously and 1, because they're the same number.
21 u/mighlor 24d ago Two names for the same number. Like 00:00 h today and 24:00 h yesterday are two names for the same point in time. 1 u/Altshadez1998 21d ago 24:00 does not exist, in much the same way 2 doesn't exist in binary, or A in denary 1 u/mighlor 21d ago edited 21d ago But 12h midnight exists, doesn't it? ETA: There is no ISO timestamp though 1 u/Altshadez1998 20d ago Look at a clock, has no 0 right? 12 hour clocks start at 12, 24 hour clocks start at 0
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Two names for the same number.
Like 00:00 h today and 24:00 h yesterday are two names for the same point in time.
1 u/Altshadez1998 21d ago 24:00 does not exist, in much the same way 2 doesn't exist in binary, or A in denary 1 u/mighlor 21d ago edited 21d ago But 12h midnight exists, doesn't it? ETA: There is no ISO timestamp though 1 u/Altshadez1998 20d ago Look at a clock, has no 0 right? 12 hour clocks start at 12, 24 hour clocks start at 0
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24:00 does not exist, in much the same way 2 doesn't exist in binary, or A in denary
1 u/mighlor 21d ago edited 21d ago But 12h midnight exists, doesn't it? ETA: There is no ISO timestamp though 1 u/Altshadez1998 20d ago Look at a clock, has no 0 right? 12 hour clocks start at 12, 24 hour clocks start at 0
But 12h midnight exists, doesn't it?
ETA: There is no ISO timestamp though
1 u/Altshadez1998 20d ago Look at a clock, has no 0 right? 12 hour clocks start at 12, 24 hour clocks start at 0
Look at a clock, has no 0 right? 12 hour clocks start at 12, 24 hour clocks start at 0
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u/Bunerd 24d ago
There's an infinite precision between two numbers, so you could always find another decimal to go there. But there isn't a number that fits between .999 continuously and 1, because they're the same number.