Maiden Ophelia
grimble grumble
0.9999~ = 1.
that severly pisses me off. There is a way with limits in college calculus to prove it, I just don't remember how to at the time.
Hey! I vaguely remember doing that...but I don't have my calc notebook with me currently so I can't say how it is done...
Are you sure it was 2+2=5? And that DNA did it? Because I remember hearing sometime (okay, I'm gonna get the numbers wrong cause I don't have H2G2 with me either, but you know when they're trying to figure out the question and they say 6 x 7 and then they say two other numbers like (for the sake of argument and this example) 9 x 4?) that someone (a H2G2 fan) had proved that 9 x 4 did indeed equal 42 when it was done in a base other than 10...and that probably made no sense to anyone...
sweatdrop (and I'm a little confused about why .99999=1 is annoying...?)
EDIT: Ahaha!! Yay for wingnut!! She wrote this in another thread:
wingnut
"What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" (which is, of course, not forty-two except in base thirteen).
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