At first I thought (no wait that can't possibly be true) but after looking at the proofs, which even I can comprehend, it has to be true.
I love Political Science because when its true, the world makes more sense. For me, math, when its true, just introduces myriad of situations where the new information SHOULD be useful, but for the life of me I don't know how.
quote:I love Political Science because when its true it the world makes more sense. For me, math, when its true, just introduces myriad of situations where the new information SHOULD be useful, but for the life of me I don't know how.
This is precisely why people should only be allowed to study political 'science' after they've shown they can handle the real stuff.
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quote:I love Political Science because when its true it the world makes more sense. For me, math, when its true, just introduces myriad of situations where the new information SHOULD be useful, but for the life of me I don't know how.
This is precisely why people should only be allowed to study political 'science' after they've shown they can handle the real stuff.
To be fair, I am GOING to have to revisit math in order to get a degree in political science. Its back to college algebra, pre calc, statistics, and quantative reasoning.
I'm still dreading it.
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quote:Wow . . . a whole wikipedia entry devoted to this simple fact?!
I'm not surprised, given the amount that the opposite statement gets repeated ad nauseum.
I can't count the number of times I've encountered people, online or otherwise, who were ABSOLUTELY convinced that .999... was NOT equal to 1. Sometimes, no amount of proofs I could come up with were sufficient. They would think the proofs I was using were of the 0=1 sort.
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I actually like Math, but looking at that link makes me question two things... (don't take them personal)
a) like someone mentioned above, a whole article dedicated to that? come on
b) and worse, someone actually took the time to read all that? ouch
Now this link I think is much more worthy of attention. Maybe its because I went to architecture school, maybe its because it was really cool when reading "The Davinci Code"? I don't know, but that one is much more fun to me. Posts: 176 | Registered: Sep 2006
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This would explain why five out of four people have trouble with fractions. And also why there are three types of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't.
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So, “in the mathematics of the real numbers, 0.999… is a recurring decimal exactly equal to the number 1. In other words, the symbols "0.999…" and "1" represent the same real number.” Well, I’ll be danged!
(I think someone must have divided by zero in there somewhere.)
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Yes, I see the proofs of 0.999...=1 and understand them, but I can't help thinking that 0.999... just can't be 1. I guess I'm not accustomed to conceptualizing a repeating decimal as an infinite series (and an infinite series is a limit, not a sum of an infinite number of numbers---actually, I got used to that pretty quickly after I learned it; I guess a repeating decimal looks too humdrum to me to be a limit).
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quote:Originally posted by ElJay: Math doesn't like you, either.
I approached math with an open mind, it chose to abuse me. When math offers me the olive branch we can negotiate a compromise.
Nobody should ever be in a relationship where their partner absolutely refuses to change in any regard, and the partner insists they are always right. Additionally your partner does nothing but demand you change your thinking until it agrees with their mindset.
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