Thread: Does 0.9 repeated = 1?

ok, 2 to the power of -1 is 1/2, any idiot knows that.

and by the way, from a post you made earlier aswell, 2 to the power of 0 is 1. anything to the power of 0 is 1, any idiot knows that aswell.

Yes, any idiot clearly does.

Originally Posted by Xei

Yes, any idiot clearly does.

yes, and you didnt.

where do you come from and what age areyou, because if you are over 14/15 and live in britain then you should really know that, because its in all of britains school ciriculum, dont know about anywhere else though

I know exactly what the answer is, thank you. You have just completely failed to comprehend what my post is about.

I got an A in A Level maths a year early and I managed to pass interview and get an offer to read maths at Cambridge university, which has the best and hardest maths course in the world.

So yes, I know what 2^-1 is.

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Originally Posted by Xei

I know exactly what the answer is, thank you. You have just completely failed to comprehend what my post is about.

I got an A in A Level maths a year early and I managed to pass interview and get an offer to read maths at Cambridge university, which has the best and hardest maths course in the world.

So yes, I know what 2^-1 is.

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sorry, im really bad with doing that, not understanding things. so were you saying that you dont see how it fits in with the pattern of 2*2 etc. ?

p.s. congrats on the uni thing, i hear cambridge is very good, but expensive am i right? of course, i live in scotland, so universities are free, yaay snp wooooo!!!!

I do see how it fits in with the pattern. It's just that you can't represent it in physical terms; we define it as the reciprocal because it gives a consistent and extremely useful system, but it's hard to give physical meaning to a negative number of numbers.

And argh, bloody Scots... it's really a complete travesty that the Labour government can constantly yell about promoting social mobility whilst also introducing ridiculous fees for university... the education system's completely fucked up, it's blatant that A Level grades are being eroded to cover up the rapidly falling standards, to the point that my qualifications are becoming worthless. Cambridge will be relatively cheap though, compared to the living costs of the Lodon unis I've applied to.

Originally Posted by Xei

I do see how it fits in with the pattern. It's just that you can't represent it in physical terms; we define it as the reciprocal because it gives a consistent and extremely useful system, but it's hard to give physical meaning to a negative number of numbers.

And argh, bloody Scots... it's really a complete travesty that the Labour government can constantly yell about promoting social mobility whilst also introducing ridiculous fees for university... the education system's completely fucked up, it's blatant that A Level grades are being eroded to cover up the rapidly falling standards, to the point that my qualifications are becoming worthless. Cambridge will be relatively cheap though, compared to the living costs of the Lodon unis I've applied to.

oh right i see what your getting at now.

thank god im scottish