It’s not even really a flaw. Just a property. In some sense we’ve lost the property of uniqueness of decimal representations of numbers that we had with other sets of numbers like integers. In another sense we gain alternate representations for our numbers that may be preferrable (for example 1=1.000… but also 1=0.999…).
It’s not even really a flaw. Just a property. In some sense we’ve lost the property of uniqueness of decimal representations of numbers that we had with other sets of numbers like integers. In another sense we gain alternate representations for our numbers that may be preferrable (for example 1=1.000… but also 1=0.999…).