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In response to "but .999...=1 sure seems like rounding. It seems like as a practical matter to make math work, its users have declared that one thing equals another" by Max

That .9 keeps trying, all the way out to infinity, to be 1. It can't ever be exactly 1.But for all practical purposes it is indistinguishable from 1 -- nm

Posted by TWuG Mar 5 '10, 13:20

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I totally get that; but I will never say they're equal. -- nm - b. Mar 5, 13:35 1
- Exactly. I think mathematicians are afraid to say it hurts their heads to think about infinity so the find a way of making infinity end. - TWuG Mar 5, 13:42

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