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Re:0.999...= 1 by GolDDranks on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @12:12PM (#23008451)
In real numbers, there doesn't exist such a thing as "infinitely small number" that is apart from zero. Yes, there exists infinitely many numbers between any minisculely small number and zero, but the way they are defined, every single number you can grasp, is finitely small. The "infinitely" small gap is inaccessible. In some other number systems it isn't, but in the standard reals it is.

That means that the "infinitely small" doesn't exist; "smallest apart from zero" doesn't exist either.

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