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apolo399@lemmy.world 5 months agoThe system works perfectly, it just looks wonky in base 10. In base 3 0.333… looks like 0.1, exactly 0.1
Comment on I just cited myself.
apolo399@lemmy.world 5 months agoThe system works perfectly, it just looks wonky in base 10. In base 3 0.333… looks like 0.1, exactly 0.1
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Oh the fundamental math works fine, it’s the imperfect representation that is infinite decimals that is flawed. Every base has at least one.