• tuna@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    If they aren’t equal, there should be a number in between that separates them. Between 0.1 and 0.2 i can come up with 0.15. Between 0.1 and 0.15 is 0.125. You can keep going, but if the numbers are equal, there is nothing in between. There’s no gap between 0.1 and 0.1, so they are equal.

    What number comes between 0.999… and 1?

    (I used to think it was imprecise representations too, but this is how it made sense to me :)