Thread: The tenth digit
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Old 03-18-2008, 08:17 PM   #25
SteveDallas
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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus View Post
0.01 is still 0.01, and so on. We still need zero.
Bullshit. You've gone to positively pathological lengths to get rid of zero on the left side of the decimal. Let's see some consistency.

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus View Post
What, then, is 1.01? (think of 101/100 to get the correct answer)
You just said .01 is .01, so 1 plus .01 is 1.01. (Unless you're going to define the addition operation differently than usual.)
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