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What does “close to” mean?

Continuing from last time, consider the (normal, decimal) number with an infinite number of 3′s after the decimal point. Now, you probably know that this represents . But why? How do we define what...

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The decadic metric

Continuing my series of posts exploring the decadic numbers… in my previous post, I explained that we will define a new “size function”, or metric, different from the usual “absolute value”, and...

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