Pi = 4 : Problem Archimedes?

G037H3

His blubber was a fractal. :X

Danger

I'll have you know, you young whippersnappers, that I ballooned up to 132 lbs. when I was playing ball. That extra 5 lbs. above my off-season weight was pure muscle.

Hepth

man I hope you just got trolled...

Stan Marsh

Archimedes will be really be pissed off when he see his name appear with that face in the last picture.

Mathnomalous

I see a resemblance.

JaredJames

It's the spitting image of him.

chaoseverlasting

Have you read 'The life of Pi' ? Brilliant book!

Integral

Sorry I don't get it? What is the problem? Why are you surprised at this result? Am I missing some sarcasm?

lisab

I'm in the dark too...

FlexGunship

Is there such a number as 0.99999....98?

Where the "9" portion repeats forever but the last digit is an "8"??

JaredJames

Doesn't that contradict itself?

FlexGunship

...no...

disregardthat

Surely there are many such numbers!

Take for example 0.8 = 0.79999...

...

Drakkith

My reasoning is that 0.9999... is NOT equal to 1.

Dividing 1 by 3 is an operation that never completes. You have to infinitely continue the operation. Seems to me that it is similar to dividing by 0. You cant actually do it. The operation isn't allowed or isn't possible. We just use "shorthand" if you will, and say that dividing by 0 is just 0 because it avoids the whole question of why you can't do it.

However, the fraction 1/3 represents 1 part out of 3 parts. Each part is a "Whole Part". 3 pieces put together equal 3/3, or 1 "Whole Thing".

If you slice a pie into 3 pieces, you dont get 0.333...x3, you get 3/3. 3/3 divided by 3 equals 1/3.

Thats just my take on it though. I'm sure many others would disagree. =)

disregardthat

You'll only get this thread locked. Consult the other of 0.9999 != 1 threads on this forum.

Drakkith

If my one post gets this thread locked, then so be it. I'm not that concerned about being incorrect, especially here in the General forum.

Edit: After reading a few posts, I'm still not convinced. 0.333... x 3 is also an operation that never ends. How can 0.3333...x3 = 0.999... if you never get a result? Am i missing some kind of rule or something in math that says otherwise?

Edit 2: I don't wanna get this post sidetracked, so don't worry about responding to me. =)

Danger

I feel crappy about this, but I feel obliged to repost something:

http://yfrog.com/2hpf2jbj