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Originally Posted by palmtree5
Never thought I'd see calculus references here...
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Hang around here long loung enough, and you will learn that all calucuus is wrong, too.
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Originally Posted by h4x0rj3ff
It depends on the setting really. If your manufacturing gears with a wire edm then .9999 is still .0001 underside from 1.00000. now if you have a geometric tolerance of lets say +- .00001 than that dimention being at .9999 would bring you out of tolerance by .00009 rendering the part non conforming and scrap.
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But if you are baking brownies, how much does a pinch equal? Tell me that, my machinst friend?
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Originally Posted by scary alien
Don't forget that the ellipses ("...") at the end of ".999..." are very important / significant.
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Not in the world of Internet math, not one darn bit. So I will choose to ignore them altogether!
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Originally Posted by wyndslash
don't let students know that  (some profs say that 69.999 doesn't equal 70, lol) |
Dont need no stinking proof. Fact is, 69.99 does NOT equal 70. Not if you divide by zero.zero, then you get a whole different number.