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[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Wouldn't it be like 9.99 into infinity? 🤔 and since the human population (at least currently living) is not infinete, then at some 9.999999 there wouldn't be anyone with a higher value? (I don't know math)

[–] onion@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

0.9999... is equal to 1, so no

[–] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

no, not really. In engineering math, sure but theoretical math it's not

[–] matiamas@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Even in theoretical math, 0.999 repeating ends up being exactly equal to 1. In fact, any terminating decimal can be rewritten in a similar manner. For example, 0.25 is exactly equal to 0.24999999 repeating

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