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Yes, this is what I meant.
That is good, since that is what you wrote.

Yes, this is what I meant.
Benjamin offered a transitivity case whose arguments consisted of rational and irrational terms. How can you expect your math software to keep a library of all "mathematical facts?" such as that some logGiven two relations stipulated as fact, a third may be concluded without resorting to a common notation.
Please define your R set, as it's clearly not the set of reals. And by "define" I don't mean "it's the set of locals".
R is the standard set of real numbers, and no one of these numbers is a non-local number.
Benjamin offered a transitivity case whose arguments consisted of rational and irrational terms. How can you expect your math software to keep a library of all "mathematical facts?" such as that some logis larger than m? If an expression includes an irrational number, all other terms in the expression are converted into the approximate format so the numerical comparison could be effectively made. I can't see how the transitivity would help the principle cause.
Doron says that 2/3 - 0.666... = 0.000...4 That means there is a conflict of facts: your "mathematical fact" - if you don't agree with the result - against his "mathematical fact." How do I decide? The way any math software does. By the conversion of 2/3 into approximate format. That can be done by division, as the slash between 2 and 3 implies.
2/3 => LD(2, 3) = 0.666...
Then I naturally ask the question regarding the conversion number formats native to Organic Mathematics.
But if Doron claims 1 ≠ 0.999...
and I use the same type of conversion
1/1 => LD(1, 1) = 1.000...
then I naturally double ask the question regarding the way Organic Mathematics convert number formats.
You keep demonstrating that Organic Mathematics is way too tedious to implement, and so I decided to stick with the standard math instead where things are decided far more effectively with an accent on simplicity. Just look how standard math deals with a certain inconsistency:By forcing Standard Analysis, the potential infinity upon infinitely many levels (with the invariant length d*(Pi/2) of the semi-circles, and the convergent areas of infinitely many levels of semi-circles (as observed in the quote)) is collapsed into a single-level of 1-dimesional space with length d by quantum leap, and we are left with a finite collection of levels of semi-circles with length d*(Pi/2), a finite collection of levels of semi-circles' areas, and a single limit line with length d.
In arithmetic, repeating decimal is a way of representing a rational number. Thus, a decimal representation of a number is called a repeating decimal (or recurring decimal) if at some point it becomes periodic, that is, if there is some finite sequence of digits that is repeated indefinitely. For example, the decimal representation of 1/3 = 0.3333333… or 0.3 (spoken as "0.3 repeating", or "0.3 recurring") becomes periodic just after the decimal point, repeating the single-digit sequence "3" infinitely. A somewhat more complicated example is 3227/555 = 5.8144144144…, where the decimal representation becomes periodic at the second digit after the decimal point, repeating the sequence of digits "144" indefinitely.
Rational numbers are numbers that can be expressed in the form a/b where a and b are integers and b is non-zero. This form is known as a common fraction. On the one hand, the decimal representation of a rational number is ultimately periodic, as explained below. On the other hand every real number which has an eventually periodic decimal expansion is a rational number. In other words the numbers with eventually repeating decimal expansions are exactly the rational numbers (i.e.: those that can be expressed as ratios).
However, a terminating decimal also has a second representation as a repeating decimal, obtained by decreasing the final (nonzero) digit by one and appending an infinitely repeating sequence of nines, a phenomenon students typically find puzzling (see List of common misconceptions#Mathematics). 1 = 0.999999… and 1.585 = 1.584999999… are two examples of this. This type of repeating decimal can be obtained by long division if one uses a modified form of the usual division algorithm.
Benjamin offered a transitivity case whose arguments consisted of rational and irrational terms....
I can't requalify my statement the way you suggested, because I still think that Benjamin was wrong by suggesting that there are cases where number conversion is not needed. Is log5(√2) larger than 1/5? How do I answer the question when I don't have a list of all mathematical truths where this particular relation is listed?Yes, he did, and that was a counter to a flat, incorrect statement you'd made. You may have meant a more nuanced set of conditions, but you didn't express them back when BenjaminTR challenged them. Re-qualifying your statement, now, with an "Oh, yeah, you are right, but this is what I meant...." would be fine. Back pedaling to move the goal posts, however, is not.
ETA: Ninja'ed by BenjaminTR, and he said it nicer than I did. Looks like there is no issue to discuss.
You surely pick an example that completely went by me. Maybe you can elaborate in some detail when Doron is asleep.Right, converting everything to decimal notation is a good way to approach this case. I was only making the nitpicky point that converting to a single numbering system is not the only way to make comparisons. You seemed to be claiming it was.
Listen, Doron, I wonder if Organic Mathematics has to its disposal something similar to the transitive axiom of algebra. You know, if a = b and b = c, then a = c. It comes handy in all variations, likeGiven {...{{{}}}}...} expression, no amount of members' levels ...{{{}}}... is is accessible to the set's level (where the set's level is notated by the outer "{" and "}" of the expression {...{{{}}}}...}.
i can't requalify my statement the way you suggested, because i still think that benjamin was wrong by suggesting that there are cases where number conversion is not needed. Is log5(√2) larger than 1/5? How do i answer the question when i don't have a list of all mathematical truths where this particular relation is listed?
I think you've just proved that your "non-local number" 0.000...110 is equal to zero.
I am sure that you have missed that 9/9 > 0.999...10 by 0.000...110
The arguments about 0.999... are arguments about numbers and numbering systems, not about spaces. Conclusions about spaces cannot settle this. You need a proof that numbers themselves must have some property or relation, and that they can only have that if 0.999... < 1. This is exactly what has been lacking.
This is very nice but you have missed that 0.000...110 > 0 because 1-dimesional space is irreducible into 0-dimensional space and 0.000...1 is a composition of 0-dimesional space and 1-dimesional space, that does not have an exact position along 1-dimesional space.Zooterkin didn't miss anything. He was merely pointing out that you have again managed to back yourself into proving the thing you tout as 0.000...1 is indistinguishable from zero.
That makes the meaning of "9/9 exceeds 0.999... by 0.000...1" completely true, just not in the way you may have thought.
No epix.2/3 => LD(2, 3) = 0.666...
Very nice epix, you have omitted the trouble maker 0.999... from 9.999... in order to get 9x = 9, but then x = 1 and not 0.999...You know what? Forget it. I show you something else with a = 9, b = 0.999... and x = b
x = b
10x = a + b
10x - x = a + b - b
Yes they arrive at what they want by changing x = 0.999... to x = 1 in order to get their requested result, vary vary nice indeed.9x = a
x = a/9 = 9/9 = 1
See? You thought that if b = 0.999... and b = x, then x = 0.999... But you thought wrong, pal. Unlike the Organic Mathematicians, we, the Standardized Mathematicians, have many ways to arrive at what we want to see. So don't argue with me that 1 > 0.999...
This is very nice but you have missed that 0.000...110 > 0 because 1-dimesional space is irreducible into 0-dimensional space and 0.000...1 is a composition of 0-dimesional space and 1-dimesional space, that does not have an exact position along 1-dimesional space.
Let us write it more clearly:
local number 1 - local number 9/9 = local number 0/9 = 0...
local number 1 - local number 0/9 = local number 9/9 = 1 > non-local number 0.9999 ... by non-local number 0.000...110
0.999...10 is a measurement along a single path of a base 10 fractal, which its dimensional space is > 0-dimensional space AND < 1-dimensional space.
This is very nice but you have missed that 0.000...110 > 0 because 1-dimesional space is irreducible into 0-dimensional space and 0.000...1 is a composition of 0-dimesional space and 1-dimesional space, that does not have an exact position along 1-dimesional space.
-1/7 < |√2|
This is not quite true. For example, given that 1/4 < 0.3 and 0.3 < log102, we can conclude that 1/4 < log102 without using the same format. These are just names for numbers, after all; they are not parts of the numbers themselves. Doron's methods are suspect, but for other reasons.
Benjamin's argument didn't involve any absolute value in his transitive case argument. And that's what I replied to.
I already told you that numbers can be compared only when they appear in the same numerical format.
Doron, there are two separate issues: 1 = 0.999... and a convergence of a series that involves 0.999... When a series, such as S = 1/21 + 1/22 + 1/23 + ... cannot provably reach its limit 1, it doesn't automatically prove that 1 > 0.999... even though it seems to be intuitively so. In other words, 0.999... = 1 doesn't accelerate the series in question to reach its limit 1. Unlike finity, infinity is not a good place for taking the pen out and start comparing. It cannot get more down to earth than here:Very nice epix, you have omitted the trouble maker 0.999... from 9.999... in order to get 9x = 9, but then x = 1 and not 0.999...
Yes they arrive at what they want by changing x = 0.999... to x = 1 in order to get their requested result, vary vary nice indeed.
No, I were not. I limited my statement in face of Doron's single inequality, which was 2/3 > 0.666...Right, converting everything to decimal notation is a good way to approach this case. I was only making the nitpicky point that converting to a single numbering system is not the only way to make comparisons. You seemed to be claiming it was.
This is not quite true. For example, given that 1/4 < 0.3 and 0.3 < log102, we can conclude that 1/4 < log102 without using the same format. These are just names for numbers, after all; they are not parts of the numbers themselves. Doron's methods are suspect, but for other reasons.
Then why did you say it was equal to zero at the beginning of the same post?
Make up your mind; does 0/9 equal zero or your mythical non-local number?
If you can't even be consistent with the basics, how do you expect to do anything with it?
Doron, there are two separate issues: 1 = 0.999... and a convergence of a series that involves 0.999... When a series, such as S = 1/21 + 1/22 + 1/23 + ... cannot provably reach its limit 1, it doesn't automatically prove that 1 > 0.999... even though it seems to be intuitively so. In other words, 0.999... = 1 doesn't accelerate the series in question to reach its limit 1. Unlike finity, infinity is not a good place for taking the pen out and start comparing. It cannot get more down to earth than here:
http://www.mathsisfun.com/calculus/limits-infinity.html
Here it is again:
local number 1 - local number 9/9 = local number 0/9 = 0
...
local number 1 - local number 0/9 = local number 9/9 = 1
local number 1 - non-local 0.000...110 = 0.999...10 < local number 1 by non-local 0.000...110
So what is exactly your problem to get it?
local number 1 - local number 0/9 = local number 9/9 = 1 > non-local number 0.9999 ... by non-local number 0.000...110
local number 1 - local number 0/9 = local number 9/9 = 1
local number 1 - non-local 0.000...110 = 0.999...10 < local number 1 by non-local 0.000...110
Only in your local-only dry dreams.I missed nothing. Your notational gibberish, 0.000...1, is indistinguishable from zero.
One of these things is not like the other.
Let us write it more clearly:
local number 1 - local number 9/9 = local number 0/9 = 0
local number 1 - local number 8/9 = local number 1/9 > non-local number 0.1111 ... by non-local number 0.000...910
local number 1 - local number 7/9 = local number 2/9 > non-local number 0.2222 ... by non-local number 0.000...810
local number 1 - local number 6/9 = local number 3/9 > non-local number 0.3333 ... by non-local number 0.000...710
local number 1 - local number 5/9 = local number 4/9 > non-local number 0.4444 ... by non-local number 0.000...610
local number 1 - local number 4/9 = local number 5/9 > non-local number 0.5555 ... by non-local number 0.000...510
local number 1 - local number 3/9 = local number 6/9 > non-local number 0.6666 ... by non-local number 0.000...410
local number 1 - local number 2/9 = local number 7/9 > non-local number 0.7777 ... by non-local number 0.000...310
local number 1 - local number 1/9 = local number 8/9 > non-local number 0.8888 ... by non-local number 0.000...210
local number 1 - local number 0/9 = local number 9/9 = 1 > non-local number 0.9999 ... by non-local number 0.000...110
So as you see, you have no case.
So let us write it in this way:
1 - 9/9 = 0/9 = 0
...
1 - 0/9 = 9/9 = 1 > 0.9999 ... by 0.000...110
So let us write it in this way:
1 - 9/9 = 0/9 = 0
...
1 - 0/9 = 9/9 = 1 > 0.9999 ... by 0.000...110
Can you make up your mind whether 9/9 equals 1 or not, please?
It saddens me to say this, but I'm with Doron on this one. He's been consistent of late that 9/9 = 1 and 0.999.... doesn't.
His reiterated nonsense which has risen beyond the level of spamming this thread is riddled with contradiction and other inconsistencies, but not recently on the value of 9/9.
(I say "not recently" because Doron has stated in the past that, for example, 1/4 and 0.25 are not the same number. Go figure. It is probably just the case the Doron is flexible on when and whether things are equivalent.)
I don't think there is an inequality as a result of that comparison. Look at it again. If 0.111(b) = 0.875(d) and 0.1111(b) = 0.93759(d), then 0.111...(b) = ?(d)Epix, S = 1/21 + 1/22 + 1/23 + ... is equivalent to 0.111...2, where 0.111...2 < 0.999...10 < 1,
where 0.111...2 < 1 by 0.000...12 and 0.999...10 < 1 by 0.000...110, and 5*(0.000...110) = 0.000...12
Doron, do you care for a detour into the field of forensic mathematics? If so, have your scalpel ready...As for multiplication of non-local numbers, for example 0.333...10*2 = 0.666...10, where 0.666...10 < 2/3 by 0.000...410, as clearly given in http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=9313916&postcount=2454.
It saddens me to say this, but I'm with Doron on this one. He's been consistent of late that 9/9 = 1 and 0.999.... doesn't.
His reiterated nonsense which has risen beyond the level of spamming this thread is riddled with contradiction and other inconsistencies, but not recently on the value of 9/9.
(I say "not recently" because Doron has stated in the past that, for example, 1/4 and 0.25 are not the same number. Go figure. It is probably just the case the Doron is flexible on when and whether things are equivalent.)
doron, just because you say something is important does not make it so. You have to show why it's important. One way of doing that is showing some non-trivial result stemming from those "structural differences". Got any?
Epix, according to Standard Mathematics 0.999...10 or 0.111...2 are different representations (numerals, out of infinitely many possible representations) of one and only one mathematical objects, which is number 1.If you did some research on math symbolism, you would find out that, the way you write it, &.###... is a way of expressing a limit of a sequence or a series (& is the integer part). It means if 0.999... is limit L in approximate/decimal format, then 1/1 is the limit L in exact/fractional format.
0.666...10 < 2/3 by 0.000...410
leads to a very strong suspicion that the fraction 2/3 is also in base 10
Measurements of complexity, which are not based only on quantitative differences.
Moreover, even if I did have any non-trivial examples currently, still refinement of Information of mathematical objects can be vary useful in the near or far future, so it is not a good idea to ignore it as long as the suggested framework is consistent.
If you have something to say about the consistency of this Information's refinement, then please clearly express it in details.
According to Organic Mathematics (which does not ignore the structural AND quantitative differences among numbers (which are derived from associations among different levels of non-composed spaces)) 0.999...10 or 0.111...2 are numbers, and by ordering these numbers w.r.t number 1 we get:
0.111...2 < 0.999...10 < 1
Of any form, where structure is important, for example the structures of fractals (even the fractal nature of the numeric system itself).What does that mean? Complexity of what? Please define your terms or put them in proper context.
http://www.ijpam.eu/contents/2008-49-3/5/5.pdfWe already know that you have no publication in any mathematical journal of any relevance.
Please train your mind, before you deal with the considered subject.I don't even understand what you're babbling about, please define your terms precisely before we can formulate proper questions or comment on them.