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12539402 No.12539402 [Reply] [Original]

How in mathematics do you express a minimal, almost unnoticeable number?
If there is on a very rare occasion when a high quality post is made on /pol/, for example, while the vast majority of posts are of low quality.
Would we say that a given post has a 99.99...% chance of being low quality? Is there a better way to represent this concept using numbers? Please tell me!

>> No.12539418

>>12539402
An infinitesimal

>> No.12539430

0.0000000...000001%

>> No.12539445

>>12539402
232

>> No.12539490

>>12539402
1x10^-99 chance of being high quality

>> No.12539682

>>12539402
"-"

>> No.12539714

>>12539402
2^(-100). The technical term is "effectively zero".

>> No.12539747

>>12539430
>>12539682
-1%

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12539786

>>12539402
any of the negated numbers is the answer. simply attach the negation sign to any.

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12539806

>>12539402
On the off chance you're actually retarded and not just trying to rally latent bunkercels, the number of posts on /pol/ is nowhere near large enough to necessitate unique notation beyond standard percentages. If you want to talk about numbers that are truly vanishingly small, look into limits and infinitesimals.