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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
I don't understand. Subtract decimal points?
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The infinite number of nines will still be less than one. You'll have to
remove the decimal point completely to get to one. As in, a decimal point, then a billion nines is still less than one.
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Likewise, no matter how many nines you add to 0.9999..., you will never reach one - unless you add an infinite number of nines.
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The number of nines is irrelevant, it'll
always be less than one.
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Observation: adding more nines does not change the fact that it is less than one, no matter how many you add.
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02-28-2012, 03:34 PM
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