03-12-2009, 11:06 AM
Philly Mike Wrote:zdunklee Wrote:What the hell man, how many times do I have to say this: FRACTIONS ARE NOT ROUNDED! The only way they are rounded is if you are incapable of working with infinity and round off the decimal expansion at some point in your own head, which is apparently the case. Even Calculators do not round off fractions...the fraction itself isn't rounded, but it represents the rounded infinite decimal.
In mathematics, real mathematics not the mathematics in your head, if a number is rational it is always taken as a fraction or its whole number representation, it is never taken as the decimal because the decimal would lead to bad calculations not being able to extend it to infinity.
Only in your head, it does not to any mathematicians or claculators. Tell me exactly where 1/9 is rounded off, and I'll show you that the next place has a number in it.
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