Hey.. if you add 1.999... to itself wouldn't you get 3.999...8?
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Anonymous2007-02-25 0:06 ID:dZdn5QKu
3.999...8 is an invalid description of a number. By what power of ten is that 8 multiplied? (Hint: you don't understand .999... as well as you think you do.)
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Anonymous2007-02-25 1:08 ID:uVRO6vYS
8/(10^inf)
EXTENDED REAAAAALS
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Anonymous2007-02-25 1:36 ID:dZdn5QKu
We are not using the extended reals, not that that would even help you. We are using the garden-variety, vanilla reals.
Try again?
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Anonymous2007-02-25 3:08 ID:uVRO6vYS
>>6
who said we weren't? you?
nice straw man argument. god.
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Anonymous2007-02-25 8:52 ID:QfGJswDp
>>6
who said we weren't? you?
nice straw man argument. imaginary being.
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Anonymous2007-02-25 9:32 ID:dZdn5QKu
>>7 >>5 did. He invoked the extended reals because they include the numbers infinity and -infinity. The extended reals are not the reals. We are using the reals. This is how I countered his point.