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Comments by "zenith parsec" (@zenithparsec) on "Something Strange Happens When You Keep Squaring" video.
5:50 or so Remember, this isn't real numbers: this is 10-adic math. t's a solution for "Yeah, let's pretend we can do infinitely many things in a finite time by truncating our calculations and ignoring the final carry." This number will have a 1 as the first digit at the "far end" of the infinite number of 9s to the left. It's not 0. It's a 1 followed by all the 0s.... except in this math game we pretend.
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