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... Right -- a book of magic. In the atharva veda there's something about a potion to make your willy grow longer (after hanging it through a charpoi) and...
" Each of seven players gets a hat, which can be any one of seven specified colors. The colors of the hats are independent of each other and repetitions are...
What is the radius of a circle inscribed in a triangle with sides of length 3, 4, and 5? Hint: there are 2 ways of figuring out the area of the circle, one...
... Given triangle ABC vertex A and right angle B and inscribed circle with center O. Draw the three radii r of the circle from O to the points of tangency....
... Here's why that works. What we have to prove is that if a + 4b is divisible by 13, then so is 10a + b. Suppose a + 4b is divisible by 13. Then a+4b = 13x,...
Okay, all is solved now. I wound up using a nonyahoo email address, and in my last email to you I detailed to you the situation. Suffice to say, even though...
Here are some Dot.com-bination web sites. This may be a good category for wheel of fortune. I rattled these off from memory. You may want to add to the list....
The way I learned to convert an infinitely repeating decimal to a proper fraction is shown in the following examples: PROBLEM: Convert 0.666666....,...
In a message dated 5/8/2006 5:58:56 PM Central Standard Time, ... Let's see... Let n = 0.999999... 100n = 99.999999... 100n - n = 99 99n = 99 n = 1 Looks like...
In a message dated 5/8/2006 6:15:22 PM Central Standard Time, ... I'm not kidding. 1 = 0.99999... What did you expect it to be? stevo [Non-text portions of...
In a message dated 5/8/2006 6:34:41 PM Central Standard Time, ... Another way to see this is to add 1/3 = 0.333333... to 2/3 = 0.666666... and you will see...
In a message dated 5/8/2006 6:47:30 PM Central Standard Time, ... Yes, that's what I'm saying. The reason you don't get 0.99999.... (I think) is that it's a...
Don't rely on untrained intuition when confronting the infinite. 0.99999... is indeed equal to 1. If you still don't buy it, find me a real number between...
Remember delta from calc class? There is an infinatly small difference between .999... and 1. Also, between every two rational fractions, no matter how...
look at the step 10n = 9.999999... we are ignoring the difference. if we do want to ignore the difference, ie if we dont want to ignore the diff betn .999.......
In a message dated 5/9/2006 8:17:51 AM Central Standard Time, ... No, there is no difference. They are exactly the same. It's two ways of writing the same...
Infinately small is not the same thing as nothing. I remember making that argument in calc I. It made a big difference to them because when calculating the...
In your example, the slope you're looking for is the limiting slope. That is the slope that is approached by two points as they approach each other closer and...
This group conversation reminds me of a dilemma I once had with the numerical value of PI. Since its digits were comprised of a non-repeating and never-ending ...
True, there is not really anything infinate that I have seen, close, far, big or small. In calc class it made a difference, there was delta and there was zero...
... This thread highlights the need for careful definitions, particularly in calculus/analysis. :) Real numbers satisfy a "trichotomy property". For every real...
Danny Wolfe <dewolfe@...> wrote: " I think that 0.99999... is irrational and similar to PI" The truth is: 1/9 = 0.111111111111..... which is rational ...
I haven't seen anyone mention the theorem regarding convergence of a geometric series, which is covered in College Algebra and Second Semester Calculus. The...
... up with n = 1 ? ... JP, Don't forget that 3 times 0.3 is 0.9, and 3 times 0.333 is 0.999 Similarly 3 times 0.33333.... is 0.999999... BUT: one third is...
... 0.99999999 ? ... You didn't get 0.99999.. because you were too clever. Ponder the following: 19636/79 "talking through the division" 79 into 1 doesn't go ...
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