Maths Point!

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Originally posted by seiya_33@21 February 2004 - 23:20
my goal is to be remembered as the spam king , if its not taken

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didnt Mad Cat already clame that in his span thread?

1/3 is not finitely representable. That means there's not enough paper in the world to write down 1/3 exactly using decimal expression.

1/3 does not equal 33.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333%

It's called a Non-terminating Decimal. (1÷3=0.3333333 bla, bla, bla ad infinitum)
Try 5÷11 :rolleyes:

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Originally posted by Rat Faced@21 February 2004 - 23:23
I always thought it was .33 recurring

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yeah but it doesnt matter. howevere many 3's it has its always not gonna equal 1 at the end!

thats the whole [point. Add a million 3's on and it still isnt 100%

So represent it as 100/3 and be done. There is no need to resolve the equation unless you choose to.

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Originally posted by peerzyboy+21 February 2004 - 22:26--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (peerzyboy @ 21 February 2004 - 22:26)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Rat Faced@21 February 2004 - 23:23
I always thought it was .33 recurring

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yeah but it doesnt matter. howevere many 3&#39;s it has its always not gonna equal 1 at the end&#33;

thats the whole [point. Add a million 3&#39;s on and it still isnt 100% [/b][/quote]
You&#39;re missing the point, you can&#39;t correctly represent 1/3 as a decimal. Just like you can&#39;t correctly represent pi

o gr8 stamp on my happyness <_<

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Originally posted by peerzyboy@21 February 2004 - 22:48
o gr8 stamp on my happyness <_<

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I&#39;d have said it was sheer defiance more than happiness :P

well it was My feeling so i know what it was and it wasnt either. it was either alchoal or some kinda highness on wakie bakie ;)

u stamped on my wakie bakie that cost me £20&#33; bastard :P