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2009-03-21, 11:29 PM
Devil's Sunrise Wrote:It doesn't converge to 1, it is 1, ryt? Sadly, infinity is a badass thing which is hard to understand sometimes.

It is a convergence if you take it as the limit of a sum... that is
sum (n = 0 to infinity) 0.1^n * 0.9
ie. 0.9+0.09+0.009+0.0009+...
or 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999, 0.99999 etc. as n = 1,2,3,4,5,...

Of course using the simple rule of a/(1-r) where a is the first value and r is the geometric ratio, you see 0.9/(1-.1) = 1
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Fun with infinity - by shouri - 2009-03-11, 06:31 AM
Fun with infinity - by Dusk - 2009-03-11, 02:22 PM
Fun with infinity - by KajitiSouls - 2009-03-11, 06:20 PM
Fun with infinity - by Nikkey - 2009-03-11, 06:37 PM
Fun with infinity - by Salguod - 2009-03-11, 06:52 PM
Fun with infinity - by Spaz - 2009-03-11, 07:32 PM
Fun with infinity - by GummyBear - 2009-03-12, 01:27 AM
Fun with infinity - by KajitiSouls - 2009-03-12, 03:26 PM
Fun with infinity - by xLeviathan - 2009-03-12, 03:29 PM
Fun with infinity - by Nikkey - 2009-03-12, 03:32 PM
Fun with infinity - by shouri - 2009-03-12, 05:32 PM
Fun with infinity - by GummyBear - 2009-03-12, 06:38 PM
Fun with infinity - by Nikkey - 2009-03-12, 06:43 PM
Fun with infinity - by GummyBear - 2009-03-12, 06:54 PM
Fun with infinity - by KajitiSouls - 2009-03-13, 01:55 AM
Fun with infinity - by GummyBear - 2009-03-13, 02:14 AM
Fun with infinity - by shouri - 2009-03-13, 04:29 AM
Fun with infinity - by Nikkey - 2009-03-13, 04:52 AM
Fun with infinity - by shouri - 2009-03-13, 06:38 AM
Fun with infinity - by KajitiSouls - 2009-03-13, 11:39 AM
Fun with infinity - by GummyBear - 2009-03-14, 11:15 PM
Fun with infinity - by shouri - 2009-03-15, 08:07 AM
Fun with infinity - by Stereo - 2009-03-21, 11:29 PM

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