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Re:0.999...= 1 by tomtomtom1 on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @10:52AM (#23007545)
wouldn't 0.999.. be equal to 1 - 10^w since it's only a countably finite series of nines.
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Re:0.999...= 1 by mFixman on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:20AM (#23017875)
0.999...9 with a countable finite amount of nines is clearly less than 1.

0.999... with infinite nines is equal to 1.

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Re:0.999...= 1 by tomtomtom1 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @01:19AM (#23027674)
sorry I typoed I meant, countably infinite. by w I meant the ordinal.
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