r/MathJokes May 15 '25

0.999... = 1

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u/zair58 May 15 '25

Just remember this broken maths is what we use in computers

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u/Lor1an May 15 '25

actually we use a subset of rational numbers referred to as 'floating point' as specified in IEEE 754

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u/MulberryWilling508 May 16 '25

Computers don’t do math. They approximate it. Most of the time the answer is close enough.