I've never understood these geek numbersmind you I've never got my head around floating numbers in maths and 3x3.3 recurring equalling 10
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HappyToast Groat froth,
Thu 16 Feb 2012, 20:50,
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3x3.3 recurring = 10 isn't too badcos it's just fractions.
what's insanely annoying is the proof I got shown that 0.999 recurring = 1.
I refuse to believe that. Maybe that's why I'm so shit at calculus.
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Thu 16 Feb 2012, 20:54,
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what's insanely annoying is the proof I got shown that 0.999 recurring = 1.
I refuse to believe that. Maybe that's why I'm so shit at calculus.
that's what I meantit does my head in, I blame my autism
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Thu 16 Feb 2012, 20:55,
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You can't argue with SyanzOr, as my autocorrect puts it, you can't argue with Shane.
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Ghoti Fingers,
Thu 16 Feb 2012, 21:07,
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It's all about twos, lots of themYour computer counts bytes in powers of two: 1 KiB = 1024 bytes because 1024 = 210.
People (and sneaky HDD makers) count in powers of ten: 1 KB* = 103.
Don't worry about the 0.3... thing, most people have trouble with that. My solution is to just not think too hard about it.
*I don't know why they use a capital k, it flies in the face of normal SI prefixes, but the i in KiB is there so you know which base (2 or 10) you're dealing with.
(People (and sneaky HDD makers) count in powers of ten: 1 KB* = 103.
Don't worry about the 0.3... thing, most people have trouble with that. My solution is to just not think too hard about it.
*I don't know why they use a capital k, it flies in the face of normal SI prefixes, but the i in KiB is there so you know which base (2 or 10) you're dealing with.
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Thu 16 Feb 2012, 23:55,
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