The 0.8181818181... Truth Movement

David Bernier david250 at videotron.ca
Sat Dec 22 13:16:12 EST 2007


Proginoskes wrote:
> On Dec 20, 4:29 pm, Dustan <DustanGro... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 20, 8:24 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:04:48 -0800, Dustan wrote:
>>>> On Dec 20, 1:05 am, Proginoskes <CCHeck... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> I myself prefer the 0.81818181... Truth Movement.
>>>> More precisely, 0.81818181818181823.
>>> Hm...
>>> In [59]: '%.60f' % (9 / 11.0)
>>> Out[59]: '0.818181818181818232282864755688933655619621276855468750000000'
> 
> Only using double precision. Weenie.
> 
>> Whoa... I only just realized, this was cross-posted to four other
>> groups. [...]
> 
> And we have comprehension!
> 
> Other posts about 9/11 to sci.math are likely to receive the same
> treatment.
> 
>      --- Christopher Heckman

And what is the answer to 818181818/1000000007 or about
0.8181818122727273140909088013636383904545312668182811...  ?

David Bernier




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