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• blue@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  x = 5/9 is not 9/9. 5/9 = .55555…

  You’re proving that 0.555… equals 5/9 (which it does), not that it equals 1 (which it doesn’t).

  It’s absolutely not the same result as x = 0.999… as you claim.

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• Redex68@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  ? Where did you get 9x=5 -> x=1 and 5/9 is 0.555… so it checks out.

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• lazyViking@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Quick maffs

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• force@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Lol what? How did you conclude that if 9x = 5 then x = 1? Surely you didn’t pass algebra in high school, otherwise you could see that getting x from 9x = 5 requires dividing both sides by 9, which yields x = 5/9, i.e. 0.555… = 5/9.

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