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On 2/21/2024 12:38 AM, Physfitfreak wrote:
> So he did get the new tax amount after all, but the amount was so huge 
> that he began cursing. Not once, and not twice, but he kept cursing for 
> a minute straight until he suddenly saw an opening on the ceiling was 
> formed and light began to pour in and Jesus descended from heaven into 
> his living room.
> 
> Not giving a damn to such bullshit, Physfit continued cursing, but Jesus 
> removed a cat hair from his white attire and came closer and placed his 
> right hand on Physfit's left shoulder, and said:
> 
> Jesus:   "Oh you poor Iran-backed man, I was also Iran-backed and see 
> what those savage cro-magnons did to me. Is the injustice done to you of 
> the same severity?"
> 
> Physfit:  "Are you kidding me? I'll blow their fucking heads off before 
> they come to crucify me. This is Texas, not your fucking Jerusalem."
> 
> Jesus:    "If I don't curse - and I didn't - shouldn't you also stop 
> cursing?"
> 
> Physfit:  "Hmm ... yes perhaps I shouldn't curse. But I picked this 
> American habit gradually over 45 years. I used to be told in my earlier 
> years, why I didn't ever curse. But now, not that easy to break this 
> habit."
> 
> Jesus: "If I wish so, it is easy. I ordain that you only have 200 more 
> curses left to utter."
> 
> Physfit looked at Jesus (he looked like... Arafat!) and said, "Is that 
> to be for the rest of my life?" Jesus nodded.
> 
> Physfit thought a bit, then said, "I have been saying an exact number of 
> curses per day as therapy to manage life. I'd rather reduce that number 
> gradually. Otherwise I might kill somebody."
> 
> Jesus:   "You will curse today as usual. From tomorrow, you will begin 
> saying 7 curses fewer than the day before, everyday, until you are left 
> with just one curse to utter. And you will never utter that curse."
> 
> Physfit:  "Fair enough."


Then, swoooooooshhshsh!.... and Jesus and all that intense light went 
back up and out of there. Physfit looked up up and there wasn't even an 
opening in the ceiling anymore. But now for some reason he was 
horizontally on the floor, in his bed. Right in the living room!

He thought a bit about what was happening, when he found himself quite 
hungry. Last time he had eaten anything was the night before he had 
waken up on the summit of the magic mountain in an urban Dallas area.

He thought to himself, "I'm going to assume that more than 48 hours has 
passed since. So got up and walked to kitchen and took a look inside the 
refrigerator. There was nothing there but the cat food he had cooked on 
the day he first saw the magic mountain. He got on the computer to order 
something zesty from HelloFresh. After choosing the closest to a healthy 
nice pre-agricultural food kit, he clicked, "Go to checkout" button, 
after which the computer waited for a few seconds but instead of getting 
to the check out screen, a screen came up to make sure Physfit was not a 
robot. It had a simple question that he had to give it the correct 
answer, otherwise food nommo.

The question went like this:

    "In math, is there a difference between the two numbers 0.999999... 
and 1 ?"

The digits of "9" continued forever to the right of the radix point. So 
of course, Physfit clicked on the "yes" button. If there was not a 
difference, then one wouldn't even bother to write 1 in that funky form, 
using an infinite series of digit 9.

But the screen disappeared, and a message said, "You're a robot. Bye!"

Physfit said, "Fuck!" (first of the fix number of curses Jesus had 
allowed him for that day). So he took a pen and paper and started 
jotting down:

    x = 0.99999....

Therefore:

    10x = 9.99999....

Now he subtracted the former from the latter:

    10x - x = 9.99999... - 0.99999...

Which simplifies to:

    9x = 9

And therefore:

    x = 1

"What the fuck??", said Physfit (his 2nd curse of the day).


Why x which was 0.99999... and not 1, turned out to be 1?



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                Re: A Problem To Solve :-) Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-03-02 19:17 -0600
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