[GW-C] Re:numbers [was Re: understanding probability]

[Paul King]

> Of course people assume things that are wrong too in many cases.
> It's interesting to see all the ways of proving 0.999... = 1 and how
> many people refuse to accept that, while having no issue with 0.333...
> =
> 1/3 and 3 * 1/3 = 1, yet 3 * 0.333... = 0.999... doesn't make them
> accept that it is the same thing.  Intuition is often wrong.
> 

See a video on this topic posted as an April Fool's joke: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsOXvQn3JuE

Paul 


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