this was necessary. just the kind of douchebagery that i expected from you.
well, i sunk to personal attacks because your logic is horrible, you clearly suck at math, and you are just a general idiot. It’s funnier if i just make fun of who you are, because your shitty logic makes fun of itself.
why don’t you explain where my logic is horrible, or where i suck at math?
it would be funnier if i just sunk to your level and physically attacked right? maybe uncalled for, but still worthwhile. moron.
actually, badazzss’s logic is correct.
To say something exists because it can not be proven otherwise is a fallacy know as “Appeal to Ignorance (Ad Ignorantiam)” (as described in The Elements of Reasoning 4th ed.)
:tup:
atleast in real world math your 100% correct
yes, 1/3 does = .33333~
pull out your calculator and divide 1 by 3
and read the thread and you will see how you go from
x = .9999
to
10x = 9.9999
to
9x = 9
to
x = 1
it is a very basic formula
when I use the calc in windows and divid 1 by 3, it = .3333333333333, but when I do 2/3 it = .6666666666667, which is not what was in the proof, so the proof MUST be wrong.
How the fuck do you go from 10x = .999999999 to 9x=9??? What math rule do you use for that?!
then your calc sucks and is rounding
my ti 86 doesnt lie
thats the formula for converting a repeating decimal to a fraction. this should have been learned in 9th grade, and then again in college level math.
^^^ werd I think thats because it’s a finite number… at any rate though, it should happen eventually down the ladder. This is all just theory though… it really cannot be proven.
like i said… if 1.000~ = 1… then how can .999~ = 1?
Are you saying that Windows is wrong???
And that formula is for converting to a fraction, and is improperly used for this application.
We all remember the 2=1 proofs (http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.false.proof.html). You have to properly apply the formulas to get right answers - I learned that in college physics.
that forumla is being properly applied. it is for converting a repeating decimal to a fraction, and it is doing just that. it just so happens that the fraction turns out to be 9/9 or 1.
Or is it really 8.99999999999999999999999999999999999999~/9 
x = .999999999…
Ok? With me so far? Good.
10x = 9.99999999999999…
With me?
10x - x = 9x
got it?
9.99999999… (or 10x) - .999999999… (or x) = 9 (or 9x)
If 9 = 9x then x = 1
THE PLANE WILL TAKE OFF!!!
Sorry, I was just suffering flashbacks there.
This really is quite simple people. Joe has probably layed it out in the easiest way so far.
if 1.000~ = 1… then how can .999~ = 1?
… just wondering
I’m not a math major here, but its a matter of .999 being a repeating decimal.
Joe and others have given the basic formulas and logical explinations. I myself can’t even begin to formulate a reason, my head hurts too much already and this week (all 3 days of it) has been a living hell and I don’t feel like explaining myself.
Bout how bout this: if 0.333…34 is used as a decimal representative of 1/3 (instead of 0.3333~), then what would you do with 0.99999~? If you round the last decimal place up, as you should, you would end up with 1.
Like I said, my head hurts too much right now.
if you put 1 drop of poison in lake ontario, does it have any poison in it?
edit- im just being a douche. i couldnt really care less if .9999 = 1 or not. all i know is that this thread sucks.