Originally Posted by Seerah
People have been arguing about this forever. Sometimes, decimals *cannot* be as accurate as fractions.
3/3 ~= .999999999...
It just gets you "close enough" to 1.
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It's true that sometimes, decimals *cannot* be as accurate as fractions, but in this case I'm not discussion a fraction
I'm discussing the number 0.[9]. In fact, there is no fraction accurate enough to display 0.[9]. So also the opposite of what you said is true: Sometimes, fractions *cannot* be as accurate as decimals.