RE: [split] 0.999... equals 1
September 22, 2009 at 5:27 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2009 at 5:27 pm by Rob.)
Just because the numbers are infinity long does not mean they are them selves infinite. the numbers you cited have a value. 0.9^_ is somewhere close to 1 and 0.8^_ is somewhere close to 0.9. take one from the other and you get a number somewhere close to 0.1. This is because the amount of space required to accurately represent the number has no correlation to the actual value of the number.
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