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Can you suggest a better solution??

Out of 17 balls, I survived most…
but got out 3 times 😅
Can you calculate my survival rate?

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Thanks Papa for everything. :)

He chased infinity…
She faced reality.
Widowed at 20.
Silenced by society.
Forgotten by the world.
But never broken.
This is the story of Janaki Ammal —
the woman who didn’t just survive…
she transcended life itself.

It took 65 years to solve this “simple” equation.
Not because it was difficult…
But because the answer was hiding where no one was looking.
x³ + y³ + z³ = 42
No formula.
Numbers beyond imagination.
Brute force = impossible.
So mathematicians changed the game.
Eliminated useless cases.
Used thousands of computers.
And finally… found the answer in 2019.
Lesson?
Sometimes the problem isn’t hard…
You’re just searching in the wrong place.

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You have 5 apples in a basket and 5 kids. Each kid must get one apple, yet one apple should remain in the basket.
How is this possible?

It’s very natural to feel that 0.999… should be slightly less than 1, because every finite version like 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, or 0.9999 is clearly smaller than 1. But 0.999… is not a finite decimal — it represents a decimal with infinitely many 9s. Mathematically, this infinite decimal can be written as the sum of 0.9 + 0.09 + 0.009 + 0.0009 and so on forever, which forms an infinite geometric series whose exact value is 1. Another way to think about it is to ask: if 0.999… were different from 1, what would their difference be? The difference would have to be a positive number, but when you examine it carefully the gap becomes 0, meaning there is no number between them. In real numbers, if the difference between two numbers is zero, they must be the same number. So mathematically, 0.999… and 1 are simply two different decimal representations of the same number, just like 1 can also be written as 1.000… The confusion usually comes from thinking about finite decimals, while 0.999… represents the completed infinite process.