RE: Question for finitists -- 0.999... = 1?
November 26, 2022 at 7:19 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2022 at 7:20 pm by polymath257.)
(November 26, 2022 at 6:24 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(November 26, 2022 at 6:21 pm)rocinantexyz Wrote: Warning: the following post contains a contiguous slice that is a PART of a larger post:
It was valid in discrete math class when I was in University.
You were taught naive set theory, as was I. Little to no introduction to ZFC.
ZFC vs naive ST isn't so much the issue here as clarity about what an infinite decimal expansion means. Which means being a bit more precise about what it means to be a real number (although, in this case, we are doing convergence in the rationals).