A billion nines is less thamn one. Infinite nines is equal to one.
The number of nines is irrelevant,
unless it's an infinite number. Then it's one. No matter how you look at it mathematically.
1/9 = .1111...
9/9 = .9999... = 1
10x = 9.9999...
x = .9999...
9x = 9
x = 1
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Originally Posted by wikipedia
- Some students interpret "0.999..." (or similar notation) as a large but finite string of 9s, possibly with a variable, unspecified length. If they accept an infinite string of nines, they may still expect a last 9 "at infinity".[37]
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This seems to be what you are doing.