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Comments by "Cheese Business" (@cheesebusiness) on "Something Strange Happens When You Keep Squaring" video.
When a mathematician pulls out an infinity, you know some cheating is going to happen. I smiled at the part where you told that the bigger debt part in addition can be ignored because there are too many digits before it 😅
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So p-adic numbers are just mirrored regular numbers. …111111 in base 2 is equal -1/2, and 0.111111… in base 2 is equal 1/2 (surprise). This infinite fraction makes much more sense in terms of proximity.
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Splitting a [0; 1] line into 3 parts recursively would illustrate the concept better than the 3D fractal.
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