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Old 01-28-2005, 01:00 PM
TimM TimM is offline
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Default Re: Math question (maybe our resident rocket scientist can help)

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I "know" the answer is yes because people have told me and I can "prove." I just have a hard time wrapping my head around it. My mind tells me that they aren't equal and that they have a difference of .0000(repeating)1.

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The repeating zeros are infinite in number, so you never get the 1.
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