• Jamablaya@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It came from it not being actually .333 to infinity when measured in the required engineering precision i was talking about. It’s literally a “common use” mathematical convention (you clearly are unaware of) that three times .333 is one. Solves a lot of problems due to a failure of the notation.

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      3 days ago

      3 times 0.333 is 0.999 not 1.

      Saying it equals 1 may be a common engineering convention, but it is mathematically incorrect.

      There is no failure of notation if fractions are used, which is why I gave this example of usefulness.

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        2 days ago

        You knows when a person informs you of a convention people use to solve a problem created by notation, you could just fucking learn instead of arguing stupidity.

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          2 days ago

          Your chosen notation solves nothing. Try Representing 3227/555 using 4 trailing dots.

          I started here by showing how fractions are useful.

          You are the ignorant aggressor, trying to fight centuries of mathematicians by claiming decimals are always better.