Subject: Oh, come on.
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Posted on: 2012-12-19 21:04:00 UTC

Mathematics is simply another language to be learned, and mastering it gives you a powerful method of understanding the workings of the physical world.

For example, you can show that 0.999 repeating is exactly equal to 1* or demonstrate that a certain shape can have infinite surface area while having finite volume** using math.


* Knowing that 1/3 = 0.333 repeating, multiplying each side by three gives us
3 * 1/3 = 3 * 0.333 repeating
so 3/3 = 0.999 repeating
therefore 1 = 0.999 repeating.

** See the Gabriel's Horn paradox.

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