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.99999 repeating = 1

Name: Anonymous 2007-02-18 15:23

x= .999 repeating
10x = 9.999 repeating
10x-x = 9.999 repeating - .999 repeating
9x= 9
x=1

Name: Anonymous 2007-03-01 6:13 ID:N/NM6Clu

actually you CAN use infinitesimals in math, but there are none in the real number set.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitesimal

"0.000...1" is just a nonsense number, you can't have anything after an infinite number of decimal places by definition.
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