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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 2006-06-02 0:12

>>58

Infinitely close = touching is a "real world approximation", and doesn't really stand up to mathematical rigour. 0.999... is as much 1 as 22/7 is Pi. That is, not at all.

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