T-rodactyl

• T-rodactyl 24 Jan 2017 13:33 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: Qiaochu_Yuan’s comment on: 0.999...=1: Another Ra­tion­al­ity Lit­mus Test

  Thank you for the reply! I get that 1/​3= 0.333… from just dividing 1 by 3, but I do have a lack of understanding for what it means to multiply an infinite decimal by some integer. I appreciate the explanation with the decimals to the left!

• T-rodactyl 21 Jan 2017 10:29 UTC

  8 points

  on: 0.999...=1: Another Ra­tion­al­ity Lit­mus Test

  I was able to make sense of this argument through the (rather unsophisticated) reasoning that 0.333...= ¹⁄₃, and multiplying both sides by three gives 0.999...=1. (I’m not sure if this actually adds anything, but it was how I made myself believe the validity of the argument)

• T-rodactyl 21 Jan 2017 10:27 UTC

  3 points

  on: Wel­come to LessWrong (Jan­uary 2016)

  Hello everyone!

  I am an engineering student from India and found Less Wrong through an article about ‘tabooing’ your words, which I was brought to through Slate Star Codex’s description of Motte and Bailey arguments. I have subconsciously thought of my interests in cool logic problems and in the disagreements between social groups as somewhat tenuously related, and I find the content here very appealing and applicable to both areas.