How about ANY FINITE SEQUENCE AT ALL?

  • मुक्त@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    0.101001000100001000001 . . .

    Might very well be :

    0.101001000100001000001202002000200002000002 …

    Real life, is different from gamified questions asked in student exams.

    • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      3 days ago

      Implicitly defining a number via it’s decimal form typically relies on their being a pattern to follow after the ellipsis. You can define a different number with twos in it, but if you put an ellipsis at the end you’re implying there’s a different pattern to follow for the rest of the decimal expansion, hence your number is not the same number as the one without twos in it.