(September 22, 2009 at 1:29 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Here is another way of explaining it. Each number is different from another by a specific amount. 2 is 1 different from 1, 1.5 is 0.5 different from 1.
However there is no gap between 0.999 (with an infinite number of 9's) and 1. If there were, then you wouldn't have an infinite number of 9's. Ergo, 0.999... and 1 are the same number.
(September 22, 2009 at 10:49 am)leo-rcc Wrote: No, it is 9X, 10X-1X. If you are going to multiply infinite numbers then the outcome is infinite as well. Subtraction of an infinite value will give you another infinite value.Infinity - Infinity is 0.
.999... (to infinity) - .999... (to infinity) will always equal zero, because it is the same value.
Okay I stand corrected on that one, however .999 to infinity - .888 to infinity does not equal zero though both are infinite.
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