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Does .999… = 1? (lemmy.world)

1/3 = .333…

1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 3/3 = 1

.333… + 333… + 333… = .999…

.999… = 1

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[-] Perhaps@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It’s kind of like how people are more likely to die in a car accident on their way to the airport than they are to die in a plane. Yet people are more likely to be afraid of flying.

There’s a sense of control that people tend to gravitate towards. In the aggregate, Tesla might run fewer red lights than humans. At the individual level there will certainly be “safe drivers” who run red lights at a lower rate, who end up dying because of the Tesla. It’s a hard pill to swallow.

[-] Perhaps@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

How do you pronounce JPEG? Jay-feg?

[-] Perhaps@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The letter G itself is pronounced with the “j” sound.

I started out pronouncing GIF by saying the letters: “g-I-f.” It eventually shortens into “jif.”

[-] Perhaps@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I couldn’t care less about all of the proprietary “infotainment” stuff, but I’ll never buy another car that doesn’t have Apple car play or maybe Android auto if I ever switch back to Android one day. Some manufacturers have talked about killing support.

Perhaps

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