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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2006-10-25 11:58 am
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Heh heh, pages upon pages of people going No... NO! Aaaaaagh you're all wrong shut up about the .999... thing. This is worse/more amusing than the time that the Monty Hall problem was AOTD.

I find it interesting that the text of the article actually predicts the belief-path the doubters take... when faced with simple and easily graspable proofs, they change their minds and state that obviously this means that the number system is broken.

[identity profile] dougo.livejournal.com 2006-10-25 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, duh, Article of the Day. I was misparsing that sentence and expecting a different part of speech.