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.

  • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Is this a bit? I meant that the ellipses, in this context, mean that the nines go on forever. Obviously there are other symbols used to represent similar ideas, like ∞

    • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I’m being serious. The word ‘infinity’ refers to some points from spaces like Aleksandrov compactification. It does not refer to any sort of repetition of any pattern. You cannot, for example, write ‘0.999∞’ or ‘0.999infinity’ to mean the same thing as ‘0.999…’ or ‘0.(9)’.