(March 1, 2018 at 12:06 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(March 1, 2018 at 12:04 pm)SteveII Wrote: That's ridiculous. 0.99999... will NEVER equal 1. Not even potentially
In no world does that make any sense to assert that.
dude...
1/3 = 0.3333333....
2/3 = 0.6666666....
3/3 = 0.9999999.... = 1
dude,
1/3 does NOT equal 0.3333333...
2/3 does NOT equal 0.6666666...
3/3 does NOT equal 0.9999999...
you are just staying the same thing. It is wrong for the same reason. There is an infinite amount of 3's, 6's and 9's to the right. So it will NEVER equal the fraction or the whole number. An artifact of a base-10 number system.