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0.999999... = 1?

Name: Anonymous 2006-05-25 9:53

What the fuck. Why is that true. They got different numbers in them.

Name: Anonymous 2006-07-09 2:53

Well, the reason that there's nothing between 0.999... and 1 is because 0.999... gets infinitely close to 1, ie the limiting value is 1.  It doesn't have to follow that 0.999... means the same thing as 1.

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