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Re:0.999...= 1 by hinkley on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:04AM (#23004723)
Yeah that’s way more complicated than it needs to be and I’m tempted to replace that whole section with:

x = 0.9999...

2x = 1.9999...

2x - x = 1

x = 1

Re:0.999...= 1 by moonchild on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:15AM (#23004800)
It's much more intuitive that 100.9999...=9.9999... than that 20.9999...=1.9999...
Re:0.999...= 1 by ColinWright on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:56AM (#23007592)
You've met the formatting limitations. You mean:

"It's much more intuitive that 10 * 0.9999... = 9.9999... than that 2 * 0.9999...= 1.9999..."

Re:0.999...= 1 by champagneben on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:15AM (#23004801)
How do you jump from

x = 0.999...

to

2x = 1.999..

Re:0.999...= 1 by hinkley on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @01:29PM (#23009442)
Picture an infinite ticker tape in your mind.

Write

   0.9
 + 0.9
 —————-
   1.8

Now keep extending the 9’s. You have to carry a one, so fix the carry and then add more nines.

Where people keep getting tripped up is thinking you can stop when you get tired, or die, or when the universe ends in heat death. You don’t get to stop. You never get to stop. It’s nines all the way down.

Re:0.999...= 1 by saagarjha on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:25AM (#23004880)
It’s less intuitive, but still relatively straightforward from performing the “long” multiplication. You do need to convince people that the “8 at the end“ is irrelevant, however.
Re:0.999...= 1 by hinkley on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @01:15PM (#23009234)
You need to convince people there is no 8 at the end because there is no end.

If you see an 8 it’s because you didn’t carry the 1. Keep going.

Another way to think about it is that you have n digits, and I’m using the n and n + 1 digit at the same time. But since n goes to infinity, +1 hardly matters.