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Re:0.999...= 1 by ff317 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @11:45AM (#23008131)
Couldn't you formulate a problem for extreme decimal-place accuracy based on the multiplication of errors in a physical process that's repeated in ways that multiply small errors into bigger ones?
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Re:0.999...= 1 by analog31 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @12:00PM (#23008312)
That would certainly be an interesting study, I just have never been able to come up with any concrete idea on my own.
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