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[-] neeeeDanke@feddit.de 19 points 5 months ago

Awsome logic in the original original post.

On a totally unrelated note: whats the biggest number between 0 and 1 (0<x<1)?

[-] havid_dume@lemmy.ml 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The set of all living humans is finite, so (if sexuality is totally ordered) there is a gayest human. Edit:though they may not necessarily be unique.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

There are more than 0 people currently the gayest.

[-] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

Wouldn't it be like 9.99 into infinity? 🤔 and since the human population (at least currently living) is not infinete, then at some 9.999999 there wouldn't be anyone with a higher value? (I don't know math)

[-] onion@feddit.de 6 points 5 months ago

0.9999... is equal to 1, so no

[-] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

no, not really. In engineering math, sure but theoretical math it's not

[-] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago

0.999… = 1 in theory also.

Otherwise, there exists a δ such that 1 - δ = 0.999…

Then, the δ should have a first nonzero digit. Let us say it is in the millionth placd. But then, 0.999… cannot have a 9 in the millionth place.

[-] Sas@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It is in theoretical math as well. I just woke up and don't know the proof by heart but there is a proof for 0.99 repeating being true equal to 1.

[-] matiamas@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Even in theoretical math, 0.999 repeating ends up being exactly equal to 1. In fact, any terminating decimal can be rewritten in a similar manner. For example, 0.25 is exactly equal to 0.24999999 repeating