(July 5, 2015 at 4:32 pm)LastPoet Wrote: To give you a hint, the decimal system is sufficient to represent all real numbers
Obviously not.
(July 5, 2015 at 4:27 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Have you noticed the ... after the nine? You need to work on your math skills IATIA.
Then it must be true in ALL cases.
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x→1
![[Image: 0.999.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i285.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fll59%2FIATIA%2F0.999.png)
f(x) can equal anything but 1 at which point it becomes indeterminate, therefore, 0.999... does not =1.You did not address the formula which shows the difference between 0.999... and 1.0, but this is not the thread for this discussion.
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