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minus-squaresteersman2484@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoHow would you then represent 1/3 inches? ~5/16?
minus-squarePeppycito@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI guess you’d use decimal inches and call it 0.3333333
minus-squaresteersman2484@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoOr you could do 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/32 … or 1/(2^n) and sum that for n=2 to infinity
How would you then represent 1/3 inches? ~5/16?
I guess you’d use decimal inches and call it 0.3333333
Or you could do 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/32 … or 1/(2^n) and sum that for n=2 to infinity