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Re:0.999...= 1 by oh_sigh on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @01:29PM (#23009445)
What exactly is the value of the number that ends in a 1 but has an infinite number of 9s before it?
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Re:0.999...= 1 by brutt on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @01:44PM (#23009656) 

    0.999...1 = 1 - 1/∞ - 8/∞ = 1 - 9/∞
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Re:0.999...= 1 by oh_sigh on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @01:51PM (#23009744)
So what you're really trying to say is 0 = 0
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Re:0.999...= 1 by brutt on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @02:01PM (#23009877)
You are 1 in infinite Universe, so you are 1/∞, so you are 0.
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