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Re:0.999...= 1 by solotronics on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:58AM (#23007617)
black magic! I wonder if there are any programming languages that are able to handle this properly?
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Re:0.999...= 1 by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:25AM (#23007882)
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=.9...+%3D+1
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Re:0.999...= 1 by tygrak on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:52AM (#23018035)
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10*0.9...-0.9...
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Re:0.999...= 1 by brlewis on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @12:48PM (#23008863)
There are programming languages with rational number types, but none that I know of that represent numbers as repeating decimals.
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