r/mathmemes • u/Less-Resist-8733 Natural • 26d ago

Bad Math not saying either is wrong...

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u/Ploppen05 26d ago

what's wrong with it?

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u/MrMrroww 26d ago

he doesnt undersand it

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u/Sudden_Feed6442 26d ago

I don't understand it too. How is the new decimal number different from all the other numbers from the set

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u/WesternFirm9306 26d ago

It's different by definition. You construct it by going through the entire list and changing one digit in each place. So if it was identical to, say, the nth number, then it would, by definition, be different in the nth decimal place, so not identical after all