Apparently some more than others, but the caterpillar just needs to have faith in a higher purpose.

Don’t worry. “God made them this way”.

I was in school way before the new math thing. I figured out doing it all in my head like this on my own because i hated writing out and solving math problems. Especially long division, and was able to coast through all my math classes. It felt pretty natural, which is how I think they decided to start doing “new math”.

9 X 47= ?

No problem.

10 X 47 is 470. Need 47 less than that.

70 minus 40 is 30.

30 minus 7 is 23.

9 X 47 = 423.

That’s is a very precise and very good answer, but im still at a loss as to how all the .9,.99,.999,.9999 eventually just becomes 1.

That it repeats forever, to no end. Because it can never actually be correct, just that the difference becomes insignificant.

You’re having to use … to make your conversion again. If you need to to an irrational number to make your equation correct, it isn’t really correct.

There’s the little meows…but then there’s an entirely different “I’m hungry” meow.

They’re different numbers. Base 10 isn’t perfect and can’t do everything just right, so you end up with irrational numbers that go on forever, sometimes.

Fractions and base 10 are two different systems. You’re only approximating what 1/3 is when you write out 0.3333…

The … is because you can’t actually make it correct in base 10.

1/3 is rational.

.3333… is not. You can’t treat fractions the same as our base 10 number system. They don’t all have direct conversions. Hence, why you can have a perfect fraction of a third, but not a perfect 1/3 written out in base 10.

Do that same math, but use .5555… instead of .9999…

Except it doesn’t. The math is wrong. Do the exact same formula, but use .5555… instead of .9999…

Guess it turns out .5555… is also 1.

If you can’t do it without fractions or a … then it can’t be done.

You’re just rounding up an irrational number. You have a non terminating, non repeating number, that will go on forever, because it can never actually get up to its whole value.

I’d just say that not all fractions can be broken down into a proper decimal for a whole number, just like pie never actually ends. We just stop and say it’s close enough to not be important. Need to know about a circle on your whiteboard? 3.14 is accurate enough. Need the entire observable universe measured to within a single atoms worth of accuracy? It only takes 39 digits after the 3.

X=.5555…

10x=5.5555…

Subtract x from both sides.

9x=5

X=1 .5555 must equal 1.

There it isn’t. Because that math is bullshit.

You play shattered pixel dungeon for the next 20 hours is what you do.

You should have embraced the heck out of that.

I rewatched it a few years ago. Didn’t much care for it. But remember when it first came out (I was around 20 at the time) and liked it.

On a side note; I totally owned the Huffy Sledgehammer bike just like the one in the movie. I had gotten it when I was around 13 years old. I got it out of grandma and grandpa’s garage and sold it on Craigslist for $100, when it should have been worth like $25.

Also, yes. I did take it on some pretty sweet jumps.

There’s no evidence that time started at the big bang, either. So it’s silly to say.