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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The only sources I trust are the ones that come from my dreams

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The way I see it is the difference between equal numbers is zero.

The difference between 0.999… and 1 is 0.000…, and since the nines don't end, the zeros don't end, so the difference is just zero.

Meaning 0.999… = 1

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I can honestly say I learned something from the comment section. I was always taught the .9 repeating was not equal to 1 but separated by imaginary i ... Or infinitely close to 1 without becoming 1.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Even the hyperreal numbers *R, which include infinitesimals, define 1 == .999...

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