Comment Comment by 0xff00ffee Yep. Agree 100%. It is like the blue dress.I think the problem is the repeating function. Infinite things are non-intuitive and should be presented differently.Even here on HN you still see people confused about "convergence" and "identity". 0.999... doesn't CONVERGE, it literally is 1.I suspect this persists even with students that have had second year college calculus that discusses convergent series and sums. parent 0xff00ffee 6 years ago
I think the problem is the repeating function. Infinite things are non-intuitive and should be presented differently.
Even here on HN you still see people confused about "convergence" and "identity". 0.999... doesn't CONVERGE, it literally is 1.
I suspect this persists even with students that have had second year college calculus that discusses convergent series and sums.