RE: [split] 0.999... equals 1
September 22, 2009 at 12:00 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2009 at 12:01 pm by Retorth.)
E.g
if X = 0.99
10X = 9.9
10X - X = 9.9 - 0.99
= 8.91
It just won't work.
But if you use unlimited 9's...as Adrian showed:
Well, perhaps its one of those debatable things...I've only just learnt of it today so I really can't say much of it yet lol
But I do find it very interesting!
if X = 0.99
10X = 9.9
10X - X = 9.9 - 0.99
= 8.91
It just won't work.
But if you use unlimited 9's...as Adrian showed:
Adrian Wrote:We set x to 0.999... (reoccuring). 10x is therefore 9.999... (simple multiplication).
To get 9x, we need to subtract x from 10x (10x - x), which is the same as doing the calculation 9.999... - 0.999...
So 9x = 9
So x = 1.
Well, perhaps its one of those debatable things...I've only just learnt of it today so I really can't say much of it yet lol

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"Only the dead have seen the end of war..." - Plato
“Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it...” - Richard Dawkins