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987654321 / 123456789 ≃ 8
Except… that it doesn’t. Serious question: am I OOTL on a joke?
It’s 8.0000000729, which approximates to 8. Why do you think it doesn’t?
Probably didn’t notice it doesn’t say “equals”. It’s easy to overlook the wavy part.
Oh, yup! I totally missed the approximately sign.
That excerpt does nothing even similar to claiming the definition makes things clear.
I have no idea what
lis, but given the context of axiomatization of arithmetic, I’m almost sure the author picked a fair and precise example.That equation is really giving “huehuehue”
