What if I cut off 0.99999... of the cake and leave 0.0000000......1?

thats a good example of gluttony.

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This post was edited by Taxidermy on May 19 2010 11:58pm

LOL!
You are like one of those people who considers themself a nerd but is actually stupid.
0.000... 1 is a real number. Moreso, it is a rational number.
It equals 0 because the 1 never shows up after an infinite number of 0's before it.
Also, you need to calm down and stop calling everyone who outsmarts you a retard.
It is such a commonly used word on the internet which has lost it's true meaning.
Retard means slow, and I doubt anyone in this entire thread has mental problems, or else they wouldn't know how to use jsp.

You cannot do that because to cut off 0.999... of a cake is to cut off nothing at all and to cut off 0.000... 1 of a cake is to leave nothing at all.
Either way you are not actually doing any cutting.

i believe thats the point he was illustrating genius

It is NOT a real number. When I say "not a real number", this means 0.000...1 does not belong to the set of real numbers.
The set of real numbers has a property called the least upper-bound property. This property can be used to prove that the set of positive infinitesimals is EMPTY - which means THERE AREN'T ANY. (note that this proof is trivial and easy to find; hell it's probably on wikipedia)
Now, since positive infinitesimals do not exist, we cannot have a number such as 0.000...1 (because 0.000...1 implies an infinitesimal). Q E motherFUCKING D.
But wait. I'll call you out. You said it's a rational number. Then by the definition of rational numbers, 0.000...1 would be able to be written as p/q, for some integers p and q (and q is nonzero). So what are these integers? I'll help you: they don't exist. Because this number isn't rational (nor is it real).

I won't call you retarded. I'll call you fucking stupid and uneducated. Yes I'm a nerd, and I sure as fuck know a fuckton more math than you do.

why the fuck are you idiots arguing over such a stupid question thats answer is so fucking simple?

People are stupid or wut.

What is the answer then?

Refer to this post for my response. All you did was change the item of choice to a cake. The principal remains the same.

http://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=41961785&p=290829945

writing 0.000...1 doesn't mean anything
its simpliy a failure at using notation

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This post was edited by Taxidermy on May 20 2010 10:06am