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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 2006-06-05 16:12 (sage)

>>80,97
You can actually extend the 'decimal point'-system for representing non-integers in several ways. One such extension is to append an infinitely repeating group of digits with '...' instead. In that system, 1/3 can be exactly represented by '0.333...'.

(Another (more logical) method is to introduce a second decimal point, preceding a group of repeating digits. 1/3 would then be represented as 0..3. In that system, eg 7/23 = 0.3.18 (and 1 = 0..9, etc).)

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