{"id":26222,"date":"2024-07-10T11:27:51","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=26222"},"modified":"2024-07-11T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T19:56:17","slug":"how-is-1-99-repeating-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/07\/10\/how-is-1-99-repeating-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How is 1.99 repeating = 2?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/aw071024-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/aw071024-3.jpg\" alt=\"How is 1.99 repeating = 2? Like wut\" class=\"wp-image-26219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/aw071024-3.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/aw071024-3-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How is 1.99 repeating = 2? Like wut<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are certainly mathematical proofs that establish that, but people providing those proofs often refer to them as paradoxical or contradictory. Numbers can be wonderfully strange! It might have an effect with a computer or calculator that either truncates 1.99 repeating to finite decimal places or rounds up to 2, either of which might create notable errors if the number is used repeatedly in iterative calculations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certainly mathematical proofs that establish that, but people providing those proofs often refer to them as paradoxical or contradictory. Numbers can be wonderfully strange! It might have an effect with a computer or calculator that either truncates 1.99 repeating to finite decimal places or rounds up to 2, either of which might create &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/07\/10\/how-is-1-99-repeating-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How is 1.99 repeating = 2?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26232,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26222\/revisions\/26232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}