(Aeralik) 4 primary cures - will now be one spell...

[Illuminator]

Originally Posted by kenman

So you believe math is bullshit. That's nice, but it doesn't really change the fact that you're an idiot.I'm not sure when this happened because I can't recall anybody calling Pinski a dumbshit. I do remember all that rage quit bazaar stuff about you though, that was enjoyable as hell to read.

Edit: And another thing, you claim you have to truncate infinitely repeating decimals... So, you can't add together 1/3+1/3 and get 2/3? After all, .333... is exactly equal to 1/3.

In your Bizarro world math, this is how you would do it:

1/3 = .333 (Non-repeating we have to truncate it lolol)
.333+.333 = .666
Therefore 1/3+1/3=666/1000

Yeah, you should certainly decide the rules of math, Illuminator. Because that makes a fuckton of sense.

1/3 isn't an infinitely repeating decimal, but .3333~ is. Got it? You solid on that yet?

In fact, 1/3 is an expression that you combine to form other expressions in your examples. Any math-teaching hack would have told you not to reduce expressions to the decimal equivalent until fully accumulated and if possible, simplified at the very end. Now why do you suppose that is?

And I made about $1K off of bazaar and got the big changes I wanted a month later. Even better, Locke ran away of his own volition! Think I should do that more often? Of course not, you recite rather than think.

[Pinski]

As a result, in conventional mathematical usage, the value assigned to the notation "0.999…" is the real number which is the limit of the convergent sequence (0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999, …).

Thus, it converges to 1, thereby, the difference between the 2 is so impractically small, that it is 0, thus we have 0.999... = 1.

Which of these are you?

1. Students are often "mentally committed to the notion that a number can be represented in one and only one way by a decimal." Seeing two manifestly different decimals representing the same number appears to be a paradox, which is amplified by the appearance of the seemingly well-understood number 1.
2. Some students interpret "0.999…" (or similar notation) as a large but finite string of 9s, possibly with a variable, unspecified length. If they accept an infinite string of nines, they may still expect a last 9 "at infinity."
3. Intuition and ambiguous teaching lead students to think of the limit of a sequence as a kind of infinite process rather than a fixed value, since a sequence need not reach its limit. Where students accept the difference between a sequence of numbers and its limit, they might read "0.999…" as meaning the sequence rather than its limit.
4. Some students regard 0.999… as having a fixed value which is less than 1 by an infinitesimal but non-zero amount.
5. Some students believe that the value of a convergent series is at best an approximation, that 0.999... ~= 1.

[Sakua]

The 'impractically small' can otherwise be thought of as a number less than all other positive numbers, which must be zero.

Why does this keep coming up anyway?

[Illuminator]

Because you won't shut up.

[Snark]

Im pretty sure int(0.999...) = 0!

[Khitkhat]

Okay... let me get this straight. They are taking the four main cure buttons and making it into ONE. yay for healers. Makes their life a little more easy (yes easy is good cuz SOME healers actually have other things they could/want to be doing) And honestly, curing is one of the more boring parts of being a healer. So I'll give kudos to Sony for thinking about their healers. The healers they also gave the ability to be great melee and DPS classes if given the chance.

Not to mention clearing a bit of space on the hotbars of healers who have 4 cure spells... I have 6, can we make all 6 into one button? *grin* Anyway, it's all about having fun. We pay for this game, we should enjoy it. whack a cure, gets old.

Kenman... wtf are you doing in this convo anyway? wtf do you care how it's done as long as your ass is cured? You were (are?) a fighter, since your little side bios says QUIT and QUIT... the only ability you have to cure is to use stupid potions on yourself. So go drink a few and hush.

[Thelounge]

Originally Posted by Pinski

As a result, in conventional mathematical usage, the value assigned to the notation "0.999…" is the real number which is the limit of the convergent sequence (0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999, …).

Thus, it converges to 1, thereby, the difference between the 2 is so impractically small, that it is 0, thus we have 0.999... = 1.

Which of these are you?

1. Students are often "mentally committed to the notion that a number can be represented in one and only one way by a decimal." Seeing two manifestly different decimals representing the same number appears to be a paradox, which is amplified by the appearance of the seemingly well-understood number 1.
2. Some students interpret "0.999…" (or similar notation) as a large but finite string of 9s, possibly with a variable, unspecified length. If they accept an infinite string of nines, they may still expect a last 9 "at infinity."
3. Intuition and ambiguous teaching lead students to think of the limit of a sequence as a kind of infinite process rather than a fixed value, since a sequence need not reach its limit. Where students accept the difference between a sequence of numbers and its limit, they might read "0.999…" as meaning the sequence rather than its limit.
4. Some students regard 0.999… as having a fixed value which is less than 1 by an infinitesimal but non-zero amount.
5. Some students believe that the value of a convergent series is at best an approximation, that 0.999... ~= 1.

Just wanted to toss this in, I am a #4, kthxbye!

Btw, why is this a deal? Don't most UIs have easy buttons like this?

[aduros]

Originally Posted by Pinski

Which of these are you?

2. Some students interpret "0.999…" (or similar notation) as a large but finite string of 9s, possibly with a variable, unspecified length. If they accept an infinite string of nines, they may still expect a last 9 "at infinity."

I always keep trying to visualize that last 9 before 1.

[Fisstafury]

MMO players in a math fight... that's gotta break some records somewhere...