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This little guy craves the light of knowledge and wants to know why 0.999... = 1. He wants rigour, but he does accept proofs starting with any sort of premise.

Enlighten him.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

And doesn’t this mean 0.99 approaches 1

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

A real number can't be approaching anything. It is not a function or any other sort of object that can be said to be approaching anything.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

No. 0.99 is 0.9+0.09. The proof I gave shows that 0.99999999999999999999999999999999999(...) is equal to 1.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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