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RE: Are numbers Real #2
October 17, 2018 at 12:08 pm (This post was last modified: October 17, 2018 at 12:10 pm by LastPoet.)
(October 17, 2018 at 12:02 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:
(October 17, 2018 at 8:09 am)LastPoet Wrote: Binary is sufficient to represent any real number.

BTW 0.11111111111.... =1

I thought it was 0.9999999999 = 1

Huh

That is using a decimal system. This stems from the fact that a real number can have more than one numeric representation. In binary, 0.111.... =1.

We already knew that from rational numbers, e.g: 2/2 = 3/3 =1.
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Are numbers Real #2

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Are numbers Real #2 - by ignoramus - October 17, 2018 at 3:56 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by robvalue - October 17, 2018 at 4:37 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by I_am_not_mafia - October 17, 2018 at 6:47 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by Fireball - October 17, 2018 at 2:32 pm
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by purplepurpose - October 17, 2018 at 4:59 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by Abaddon_ire - October 17, 2018 at 5:34 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by ignoramus - October 17, 2018 at 5:56 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by robvalue - October 17, 2018 at 5:37 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by purplepurpose - October 17, 2018 at 5:43 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by robvalue - October 17, 2018 at 5:48 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by Abaddon_ire - October 17, 2018 at 6:11 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by robvalue - October 17, 2018 at 11:57 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by Mr.Obvious - October 17, 2018 at 6:52 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by LastPoet - October 17, 2018 at 8:09 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by vulcanlogician - October 17, 2018 at 12:02 pm
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by Grandizer - October 17, 2018 at 12:07 pm
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by LastPoet - October 17, 2018 at 12:47 pm
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by LastPoet - October 17, 2018 at 12:08 pm
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by Silver - October 17, 2018 at 8:12 am
RE: Are numbers Real #2 - by robvalue - October 17, 2018 at 2:07 pm

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