| Re: 0.999...=1 -
02-14-2008, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Profpat  OK take the decimal .99999999999999999... and carry it out to a trillion trillion googleplex decimal points where does it equal 1 ? At infinity ? | Yes, the decimal with infinitely many 9's (which is what the notation 0.99.. (recurring) means) is equal to one.
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