stackyFACTSBecause human intuition is basically garbage, zero point nine repeating doesn't just get infinitely close to one—it is exactly one. If you multiply one-third by three, you get three-thirds, or one. Mathematically, the difference between the two numbers is exactly zero, proving that our counting system is secretly gaslighting us.
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