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Oct. 25th, 2006 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progHeh 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.
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.
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Date: 2006-10-27 07:56 pm (UTC)I don't really know much about infinity. Are there solid scientific reasons for believing in it? I'm not sure that saying it's useful mathetmatically is a good argument for the existence of infinity, merely that it's a useful hypothetical idea. But again, I don't know a ton about it really.