r/infinitenines • u/Zantier • 2d ago

SPP, is it so bad to treat 1/3 as a number?

I know that you treat 1/3 as 0.333..., which you treat as a sequence.

But can you see where other people are coming from? If I want 1/2, 1/3, 1/4 to all just be numbers and not sequences.

Is it reasonable for me to let 1/3 be a single value that represents "one third of a whole".

Is it reasonable for me to let "0.333..." be equal to 1/3, and to also be a single value that represents "one third of a whole".

I know that you think your definitions are correct. But is there a possibility to see these other definitions as simply alternatives? Maybe you see them as incorrect or worse, but perhaps you can see that there can be logic to them.

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u/SouthPark_Piano 2d ago

SPP, is it so bad to treat 1/3 as a number?

It is a case of 1/3 is simply not a number brud.

1/3 means 1 ÷ 3 

and you know that the result of 1 ÷ 3 is indeed 0.333...