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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 11:05 AM EST |
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if 1 = 0.9r then
0.9r = 0.9r8 by the same logic"
And what logic might that be? Using your notation, 0.99r
will always be greater than 0.98r. Heck, even 0.99 will
always be greater than .098r.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: mvs_tomm on Friday, December 14 2012 @ 12:13 PM EST |
(excuse my notation)
if 1 = 0.9r then
0.9r = 0.9r8 by
the same logic
Ok, I will excuse your notation, but what does
"0.9r8" mean? If it means an infinitely repeating series of "9" digits followed
by an "8", that doesn't make any sense. Since the "9" digits repeat infinitely,
there is never a place for the "8" to be added.
It is not true that
0.999...9 = 1 for an arbitrary large but finite number of "9" digits. The key
is that the "9" digits repeat without end.
Tom Marchant[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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