More Demonstrable Proof That the World Has Gone Mad

You remember those repeating decimals we learned in high school?

Like .3 with a line over it equals
.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333 (the 3 repeating into infinite)?

Well, apparently

= 1

Yes, you heard me.

Despite the fact that even a mathematical mental midget such as myself (but a whiz at alliteration--buddummm chiiiii!) knows that if the 9 after the decimal point in .99999999999999999999999999 repeats itself infinitely, it is always approaching 1 but never quite reaching it, this fact has been proven wrong. And yet right.

Sadly, like Zeno's paradoxes, I find this weirdly fascinating, despite the fact that it seems like it should be causing some sort of tear in the skivvies of the space-time continuum.

This is why I have no friends.

(Read more HERE)

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