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11944809

Obvious bullshit

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Is it a mental limitation? Not being able to conceive of infinity? It's been settled math for over a century now.
I remember a conversation I had with my daughter in the car when she was starting out with algebra...
>Me: Is 9.999... the same as 10, or is it just really close to 10?
>Kid: Really close. It never gets all the way there.
>Me: Well then how close? What do you get when you subtract 9.999... from 10?
>Kid: (pause) An infinite number of zeroes. . .and then a one. . .wait, you can't do that.
>Me: Right. You just have an infinite number of zeroes. Which is zero.
>Kid: (pause) Oh, that's mind-blowing.
Even a child can come to acknowledge the infinite, it's all quite trivial really, but apparently still too much for lesser minds. *sigh*

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Does this concept trigger your autism, /sci/?

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