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ATProto Browser

Experimental browser for the Atmosphere

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It may seem strange, but I think the problem is that the implicit premise that there is a number with a repeating decimal representation like that, and there actually isn’t. More formally, I suppose what you’re saying with “0.9999…” is the thing in this image, which is pretty obviously 1.

May 12, 2025, 5:04 AM

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