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If 0.999 (etc.) = 1, does 1 - 0.999 = 0?
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LastPoet
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March 4, 2012 at 2:52 pm
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2012 at 2:53 pm by LastPoet.)
Yes. 1-0.9999... =0 because 1 and 0.9999 are the same number and x + (-x) = 0, although the decimal representations are different as I outlined in the other thread. This is because the decimal (base 10) system we use, although sufficient to represent a real number, the same number can have two different decimal representations.
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