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That equation is really giving “huehuehue”
987654321 / 123456789 ≃ 8
Except… that it doesn’t. Serious question: am I OOTL on a joke?
It’s 8.0000000729, which approximates to 8. Why do you think it doesn’t?
Probably didn’t notice it doesn’t say “equals”. It’s easy to overlook the wavy part.
That excerpt does nothing even similar to claiming the definition makes things clear.
I have no idea what
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is, but given the context of axiomatization of arithmetic, I’m almost sure the author picked a fair and precise example.