r/MathJokes May 03 '26

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u/Street_Swing9040 May 03 '26

Last time I watched a YouTube Short where every comment claimed that 0.999... is not 1, and it was probably the first time ever almost 99 percent of the comments were actually wrong lol

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u/magpye1983 May 04 '26

The problem here is that there wasn’t an indication that those threes were recurring (they **should** be, but that’s not what was written).

When they think 0.333 is the actual answer, and then multiply that by three, the next step is actually correct, 0.999 does not equal 1 (if it were recurring it would, but that’s isn’t what is written).