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If 0.999(etc) = 1, does 1 - 0.999 go to zero?
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RE: If 0.999(etc) = 1, does 1 - 0.999 go to zero?
Anything you put after infinity is meaningless. ∞ + 1 = ∞. ∞ + ∞ = ∞. ∞ * ∞ = ∞, and even ∞/∞ = ∞. ∞ itself isn't a number either, hence why it doesn't follow the rules of numbers. But you can have irrational numbers, and you can also have fractions. 1/3 is a fraction, it's equal to 0.333... which is a rational number. An irrational number is a number that cannot be represented as a fraction. For instance Pi. Pi has ∞ decimal places, and for any Nth decimal there is a value (0-9). There is no N = ∞ + 1 decimal place of Pi, nor could you calculate it.

To get back to your point, to be able to have x = 0.000...1 you would need to be able to solve the equation:

1/∞ = x. This of course is impossible, there is no value for x where x∞ = 1. giving x the value of 0 leads 0∞ = 0, giving x any other positive value x∞ = ∞.
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If 0.999(etc) = 1, does 1 - 0.999 go to zero? - by Euler - January 26, 2013 at 7:59 pm
RE: If 0.999(etc) = 1, does 1 - 0.999 go to zero? - by Aractus - February 21, 2013 at 7:20 am

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