Thread: The tenth digit
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Old 03-19-2008, 10:10 AM   #29
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Originally Posted by SteveDallas View Post
Bullshit. You've gone to positively pathological lengths to get rid of zero on the left side of the decimal. Let's see some consistency.


You just said .01 is .01, so 1 plus .01 is 1.01. (Unless you're going to define the addition operation differently than usual.)
1.01 is 101/100. 101 becomes þ1, so 1.01 becomes 0.þ1

2.01 becomes 1.þ1, just as 201 becomes 1þ1

I'm not trying to get rid of zeros, they just drop out. I love zeros. But we could get rid of leading zeros by using exponential notation, if you like.



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Originally Posted by binky View Post
honestly HLJ I think you need a hobby
Maybe implementing new decimal will be my hobby. This and the prime number thing. And getting rid of Mondays. And trying to make sense of tw.

Are any of these things possible? Probably not.
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