“Oh. Uh…oppsies. we were wrong. We change our ruling.”

The remaining 3 justices and the new ones would quickly undo this shit.

Damn it, democrats. Quit being little bitches. For 30 years ive watched you roll over or play nice and its gotten us screwed over. Have the 5 or 6 Supreme Court justices who decided this hung for treason. Show a country that’s sick of corruption. Politicians used to be afraid of the stick. America quit carrying one decades ago.

Apparently some more than others, but the caterpillar just needs to have faith in a higher purpose.

Don’t worry. “God made them this way”.

That’s is a very precise and very good answer, but im still at a loss as to how all the .9,.99,.999,.9999 eventually just becomes 1.

It’s that high to employ all the guards and construction and wardens and whatnot. A lot of hands are in that cookie jar.

That it repeats forever, to no end. Because it can never actually be correct, just that the difference becomes insignificant.

You’re having to use … to make your conversion again. If you need to to an irrational number to make your equation correct, it isn’t really correct.

There’s the little meows…but then there’s an entirely different “I’m hungry” meow.

They’re different numbers. Base 10 isn’t perfect and can’t do everything just right, so you end up with irrational numbers that go on forever, sometimes.

Fractions and base 10 are two different systems. You’re only approximating what 1/3 is when you write out 0.3333…

The … is because you can’t actually make it correct in base 10.

1/3 is rational.

.3333… is not. You can’t treat fractions the same as our base 10 number system. They don’t all have direct conversions. Hence, why you can have a perfect fraction of a third, but not a perfect 1/3 written out in base 10.

Do that same math, but use .5555… instead of .9999…

Except it doesn’t. The math is wrong. Do the exact same formula, but use .5555… instead of .9999…

Guess it turns out .5555… is also 1.

If you can’t do it without fractions or a … then it can’t be done.

You’re just rounding up an irrational number. You have a non terminating, non repeating number, that will go on forever, because it can never actually get up to its whole value.

I’d just say that not all fractions can be broken down into a proper decimal for a whole number, just like pie never actually ends. We just stop and say it’s close enough to not be important. Need to know about a circle on your whiteboard? 3.14 is accurate enough. Need the entire observable universe measured to within a single atoms worth of accuracy? It only takes 39 digits after the 3.

X=.5555…

10x=5.5555…

Subtract x from both sides.

9x=5

X=1 .5555 must equal 1.

There it isn’t. Because that math is bullshit.

They’ll just flash the computer to default to be 4th gear upon signal loss instead of 1st gear. Danger problem averted. Cost is only 30 minutes of labor.