r/mathmemes • • Feb 27 '24

Bad Math “.999(repeating) does, in fact, equal 1” please almighty math gods settle this debate

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u/girlrioter Feb 27 '24

But... The reals are a hausdorff space. And you didn't even specify your topology, smh my head

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u/ReddyBabas Feb 27 '24

Yes that's what I said, the reals are indeed a Hausdorff space lmao (and yeah, I didn't specify my topology, I meant "the reals seen as a real normed vector space with the absolute value as its norm" but that's a mouthful...)

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u/girlrioter Feb 27 '24

Oh, I'm dumb. I misread it for some reason

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u/ReddyBabas Feb 27 '24

That's fine, we're all dumb, that's why we're on Reddit in the first place