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Originally Posted by triviumrocks89
no it doesnt 1 equeals 1 and 0.99999 equeals 0.99999
rounding it off just doesnt cut it for me. i hate it when i buy a hard drive thats supposed to be 200GB and its 181GB or when i thought i had 3Ghz but it just turned out to be 2.8Ghz. (this system was a gift)
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If you ever take calculus and you get .9999999 as an answer, if you write down 1 as an answer on the test, I can guarantee you that you will not fail the test.
It has to do with a number approaching a limit. You can never get there but at the limit the number is a whole number and that whole number IS the answer. Not a repeating decimal. This is how the orbits of the planets were first calculated. To this day Newtons equations using calculus are still used and they are accurate. The bottom line is the correct answer right? The equations do not get you exactly there, but they get you so damn close that it becomes very obvious what is the correct answer.
Computer manufacturers have to round off numbers just for simplicities sake. It's unrealistic to expect them to give a number out to 12 decimal places.