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[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I wish computers could calculate infinity

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[-] BachenBenno@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago

Mathematics is built on axioms that have nothing to do with numbers yet. That means that things like decimal numbers need definitions. And in the definition of decimals is literally included that if you have only nines at a certain point behind the dot, it is the same as increasing the decimal in front of the first nine by one.

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