• apolo399@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The system works perfectly, it just looks wonky in base 10. In base 3 0.333… looks like 0.1, exactly 0.1

    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca
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      5 months ago

      Oh the fundamental math works fine, it’s the imperfect representation that is infinite decimals that is flawed. Every base has at least one.