• Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    20 days ago

    Nothing says we need to use whole numbers? Anything else will converge to 2,1,4,2,1,4,2,1…

    0.1 on the other hand just keeps shrinking forever…

    Edit: sorry, I should have answered in the form of an emoji: 🌭=🍉÷🍊

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      Not quite. You cannot determine whether 0.1 is odd.

      If you define a number to be odd if N mod 2 = 1, then 0.1 is not odd.

      If you define a number to be odd if N mod 2 ≠ 0, then 0.1 is odd.

      As such, I would argue checking if 0.1 is odd would result in “unknown” and you cannot get the value of 🍎₁.