Comment Re:I'll be first to say WTF (Score 1) 700
Sure, I have some troll biscuits in my pocket that I'd like to get rid of.
What is 1/3 as a decimal?
If it has a decimal representation at all, then it is
That is to say that it is a decimal point followed by an infinite
number of 3s.
So what is
Of course it's
which implies
No matter how far back you get, there's a 9 at the end.
But
1/3 * 3 = 1
Thus,
QED
I find the notion of repeating decimals kind of silly, and would just
prefer to say that 1/3 has no exact representation. As far as I can
tell from calculus class this doesn't change anything.