• Blum0108@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I was taught that if 0.9999… didn’t equal 1 there would have to be a number that exists between the two. Since there isn’t, then 0.9999…=1

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      5 months ago

      Not even a number between, but there is no distance between the two. There is no value X for 1-x = 0.9~

      We can’t notate 0.0~ …01 in any way.