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minus-squarerecall519@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·5 hours agoFractions are more accurate. You can’t display 1/3 as a decimal. Americans are dumb, but this isn’t an imperial versus metric thing.
minus-squarethrowawayacc0430@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 hour ago1/3 = 0.(3) (digits in parenthesis indicate repeating) 2/3 = 0.(6) 3/3 = 0.(9) which is equal to 1 btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999… Despite common misconceptions, 0.999… is not “almost exactly 1” or “very, very nearly but not quite 1”; rather, “0.999…” and “1” represent exactly the same number.
minus-squaresupamanc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoYour accuracy goes out of the window when you are actually measuring things though. The error is as significant as rounding 1/3 to 0.33
minus-squarethrowawayacc0430@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoNot rounding. Mathematically, 0.(3) (repeating) is the exact same as 1/3
Fractions are more accurate. You can’t display 1/3 as a decimal. Americans are dumb, but this isn’t an imperial versus metric thing.
1/3 = 0.(3) (digits in parenthesis indicate repeating)
2/3 = 0.(6)
3/3 = 0.(9) which is equal to 1 btw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999…
Your accuracy goes out of the window when you are actually measuring things though. The error is as significant as rounding 1/3 to 0.33
Not rounding. Mathematically, 0.(3) (repeating) is the exact same as 1/3