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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's what it means, though. For the function y=x, the limit as x approaches 1, y = 1. This is exactly what the comment of 0.99999... = 1 means. The difference is infinitely small. Infinitely small is zero. The difference is zero.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Infinity small is infinity small. Not zero

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's simply not true, as I demonstrated in my example.