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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: Styrofoam 2006-07-13 23:57 (sage)

>>166

So what you're saying is, you are acknowledging that 0.000...1 has no actual meaning, and neither does 0.999...8.  I note that in >>161 you say >>you never get any farther from 1 doing that though
So you admit that 0.999...8 (which is a nonsensical number) = 0.999~ = 1.

Really, I think we agree that 0.999~ = 1, but I'm arguing that 0.000...1 is nonsensical while you're arguing that it's a valid concept.  Come to think of it, I would agree that 0.000...1 is a valid concept, as the infinitesimal.  But that's not how the infinitesimal is defined, and I still say 0.000...1 is a stupid way of writing it.

>>170

0.999... and 0.999~ both imply an infinitely repeating decimal, numbskull.

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