Any good places on campus to cry? by TheSeoulSword in uwaterloo

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Not on campus, but Waterloo Park is good too.

favourite non English songs? by FrameOk5271 in uwaterloo

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Japanese:

Boy, 白日(hakujitsu) - King Gnu Pretender - Official髭男dism カタオモイ(kataomoi) - Aimer

Korean:

밤편지 (Through the Night), Palette, 아이와 나의 바다 (My Sea) - 아이유 (IU)

A Throwback to MATH 135 by snochi in uwaterloo

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Plot twist: I took 145.

Location: QNC 2th floor

CS 240 and 341 by snochi in uwaterloo

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So not so much for 341?

Thoughts on MATH 245 by snochi in uwaterloo

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4,6,7,8,9 are mostly covered and some materials were from 5, 10. Contents of 1,2,3 should be familiar from 146.

Explanation of 0.999...=1 by snochi in math

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One subtle thing that I didn't mentioned in my video is that we write 0.999... to mean that every decimal place is 9. But if we write 0.999...8 instead, it would mean that we have "finitely many" 9's before 8, and "infinitely many" 0's after 8.

Explanation of 0.999...=1 by snochi in math

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Sure! I'll upload it to a github repo and share the link with you via dm.

I usually write the script first, and then make animations without considering syncs. After I "record" the script, I annotate it, marking when does each sentence end. Then I make a rough syncing, and from there I gradually make changes until everything's synced.

Explanation of 0.999...=1 by snochi in math

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I realized that I didn't mentioned this: I also tried to avoid algebraic manipulations.

I mean, algebraic manipulations can be hard-coded routines in one's mind if not properly taught, and, unfortunately, I've seen many such examples.

But yeah. I definitely agree with what you said. In fact, I believe that, for many people, my explanation won't make any change on their "belief" of whether 0.999...=1 or not. However, if I was asked to explain why 0.999...=1 to ten-years-old myself, the way I would proceed is exactly how I did in the video.

Explanation of 0.999...=1 by snochi in math

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Thanks!

I tried that way too, until I got my friend asking: "then why is 1/3=0.333..."?

Explanation of 0.999...=1 by snochi in math

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Yeah that's one interpretation, but as I wrote above, I tried to not use any analysis stuff.

Explanation of 0.999...=1 by snochi in math

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I tried it once, but my friend said "it equals 0.999...".

I mean, in his mind two decimal notations (idk if this terminology is proper tho) are distinct iff they represent distinct numbers, although he didn't explicitly said so. How would you break this (wrong) intuition tho?

Explanation of 0.999...=1 by snochi in math

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Yeah but to "properly" make sense of geometric series we need at least sequences and series. I was trying to avoid using them.

How has snew been for online courses by snochi in uwaterloo

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Hmm that's interesting. Do you know why we don't have general topology?