Comments on: Point Nine Repeating Equals One http://www.logicnest.com/archives/103 The personal weblog of Ian Luke Kane. Thoughts on mathematics, logic, and life. The beauty therein and the strangeness of it all. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:26:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Mário Freitas http://www.logicnest.com/archives/103/comment-page-1#comment-6413 Mário Freitas Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:06:17 +0000 http://www.logicnest.com/archives/103#comment-6413 Hi again, I remember reading somewhere in a parody of maths website that 1 plus 1 equals 4 "for large values of 1" (as in 1.99999...). I never thought there would be a more "scientific" explanation/proof for this and I found them very interesting. Thanks for the post! PS: By the way Ian, it seems that every time I forget to fill in some of the comment's fields, the spam protection mechanism always seems to fail after I press the back button. When I press the browser (safari 3) back button, I get a new sum, I input the correct value but it always result in an error. I have to surf back to the posts list and start all over again and remember to fill everything in one shot! Hi again,
I remember reading somewhere in a parody of maths website that 1 plus 1 equals 4 “for large values of 1″ (as in 1.99999…). I never thought there would be a more “scientific” explanation/proof for this and I found them very interesting.
Thanks for the post!

PS: By the way Ian, it seems that every time I forget to fill in some of the comment’s fields, the spam protection mechanism always seems to fail after I press the back button. When I press the browser (safari 3) back button, I get a new sum, I input the correct value but it always result in an error. I have to surf back to the posts list and start all over again and remember to fill everything in one shot!

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