• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    You’re just rounding up an irrational number. You have a non terminating, non repeating number, that will go on forever, because it can never actually get up to its whole value.

    • WldFyre@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      1/3 is a rational number, because it can be depicted by a ratio of two integers. You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re getting basic algebra level facts wrong. Maybe take a hint and read some real math instead of relying on your bad intuition.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 months ago

        1/3 is rational.

        .3333… is not. You can’t treat fractions the same as our base 10 number system. They don’t all have direct conversions. Hence, why you can have a perfect fraction of a third, but not a perfect 1/3 written out in base 10.

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          9 months ago

          0.333… exactly equals 1/3 in base 10. What you are saying is factually incorrect and literally nonsense. You learn this in high school level math classes. Link literally any source that supports your position.

        • pyre@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          .333… is rational.

          at least we finally found your problem: you don’t know what rational and irrational mean. the clue is in the name.

          • Klear@sh.itjust.works
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            9 months ago

            TBH the name is a bit misleading. Same for “real” numbers. And oh so much more so for “normal numbers”.

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              9 months ago

              not really. i get it because we use rational to mean logical, but that’s not what it means here. yeah, real and normal are stupid names but rational numbers are numbers that can be represented as a ratio of two numbers. i think it’s pretty good.