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RE: 1 = 0,99........

Dude, the two are one and the same. Compute and calculate are synonyms, and computers were first invented to compute data. Calculators are just computer programs that take in an n amount of numbers and operators and return the calculated value of those numbers.

As I said, computers cannot work with infinite numbers. Regular integers on 32bit computers are 4 bytes large and the maximum value of a signed (both negative and positive) is 2,147,483,647. The absolute highest value I can get is an unsigned long long integer and that value is 18,446,744,073,709,551,615. Now I don't have a supercomputer but this is the absolute largest integer my compiler and computer support and it is far from infinite. I don't want to sound like a douchebag and pretend like I actually proved that 0.9~ is not equal to 1, but I think I proved that modern computers cannot work with infinite numbers. The number above is likely a 64bit integer which is the most that a 64bit computer architecture can handle.

All of these numbers took up physical memory while I was doing these calculations which should be sufficient proof that computers cannot work with infinite series. Again, there is no such thing as infinite memory. If you see a calculation in a computer program that works with an infinite series it is because somebody defined that infinite series with a finite number specified in some header somewhere. Infinitesimals are the same deal. They are too small to be measured, and if you want to do a calculation on a computer you need something measurable.
(This post was last modified: 10-06-2012, 11:20 PM by Bridge.)
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1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-06-2012, 10:26 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Froge - 10-06-2012, 10:27 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-06-2012, 10:30 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-06-2012, 10:36 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-06-2012, 10:38 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-06-2012, 10:44 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-06-2012, 10:49 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-06-2012, 11:18 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 08:52 AM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-07-2012, 10:24 AM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 11:00 AM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-07-2012, 12:21 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 12:26 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-07-2012, 12:29 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 12:39 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-07-2012, 12:47 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 01:06 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-07-2012, 01:21 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 01:25 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Robby - 10-07-2012, 02:26 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Kreekakon - 10-07-2012, 02:28 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Froge - 10-06-2012, 11:28 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-06-2012, 11:58 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Danny Boy - 10-07-2012, 02:17 AM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Ghieri - 10-07-2012, 05:01 AM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by rndmnwierd - 10-07-2012, 09:01 AM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Robby - 10-07-2012, 09:10 AM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 09:16 AM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Unearthlybrutal - 10-07-2012, 09:44 AM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 09:45 AM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Googolplex - 10-07-2012, 12:03 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 12:08 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Ghieri - 10-07-2012, 02:06 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Robby - 10-07-2012, 02:35 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-07-2012, 02:40 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 02:55 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Ghieri - 10-07-2012, 02:44 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-07-2012, 02:45 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Ghieri - 10-07-2012, 03:00 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-07-2012, 05:08 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 09:28 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Ghieri - 10-07-2012, 06:48 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-07-2012, 06:58 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Ghieri - 10-07-2012, 07:21 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Your Computer - 10-07-2012, 07:40 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Ghieri - 10-07-2012, 08:20 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Bridge - 10-07-2012, 09:14 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Your Computer - 10-07-2012, 09:33 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by BAndrew - 10-07-2012, 09:38 PM
RE: 1 = 0,99........ - by Ghieri - 10-07-2012, 09:54 PM



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