That’s not what “axiom” means
Comment on I just cited myself.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoThere are versions of math where that isn’t true, with infinitesimals that are not equal to zero. So I think it is an axium rather than a provable conclusion.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 days ago
JackRiddle@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Those versions have different axioms from which different things can be proven, but we don’t define 9.9 repeating as 1