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[split] 0.999... equals 1
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RE: By the way, 0.999... = 1
November 2, 2011 at 8:22 am (This post was last modified: November 2, 2011 at 8:23 am by fr0d0.)
There's a whole thread on this already mehmet: http://atheistforums.org/thread-1989.html

Unless this was a sarcastic post, or an attempt to re visit the question and not raise that monster from the dead??
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RE: By the way, 0.999... = 1
November 2, 2011 at 10:27 am
According to trinitarians is 0.999... = 1 = 3 Big Grin

But seriously, there are many different proofs you can do to prove 0.999...=1, its in the thread fr0d0 linked. Don't raise this monster again, necromancer.
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RE: By the way, 0.999... = 1
November 2, 2011 at 9:46 pm
Die. In. A. Fire.

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Stay dead. Stay fucking dead.
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RE: By the way, 0.999... = 1
November 2, 2011 at 9:48 pm
Not again! *shoots self in face*
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RE: By the way, 0.999... = 1
November 2, 2011 at 10:40 pm
(November 2, 2011 at 9:48 pm)theVOID Wrote: Not again! *shoots self in face*

If he sticks to it: just copy paste from the previous thread. This doesn't need anymore work: IT'S BEEN SETTLED Undecided

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RE: By the way, 0.999... = 1
November 3, 2011 at 12:18 am
It is accepted because the definition of numbers requires a divisible space between each. Because there is no divisible space between 0.999... and 1, it is accepted as 1. The proofs, however, are all wrong. But we do not know what else to do with this number without shaking the foundations mathematics.
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RE: By the way, 0.999... = 1
November 3, 2011 at 3:22 am
Everything eventually resolves to 42
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RE: By the way, 0.999... = 1
November 3, 2011 at 4:30 am
0.999... = 42
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RE: By the way, 0.999... = 1
November 3, 2011 at 5:48 am
(November 3, 2011 at 12:18 am)IATIA Wrote: It is accepted because the definition of numbers requires a divisible space between each. Because there is no divisible space between 0.999... and 1, it is accepted as 1. The proofs, however, are all wrong. But we do not know what else to do with this number without shaking the foundations mathematics.
The proofs are not wrong. You are wrong. It isn't just "accepted" as 1; it is provably equal to 1.
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RE: By the way, 0.999... = 1
November 3, 2011 at 6:18 am
The reason for 0.9... = 1 is that, altough all Real numbers can be represented un an infinite decimal, the same Real can have more than one decimal representation. and 0.9...= 1 is just one of many, for instance, the rational 31/10 has 2 decimal representations: 3.10000... and 3.099999... , in effect if you calculate 10x - x, being x=3.09999... :
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10x = 30.99999...
- x =  3.09999...
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  9x = 27.90000...

So, 9x = 279/10 <=> x = 31/10
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