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.9 repeating and 1 are not the same quantity

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by: Paul Alsing - Sun, 9 Jan 2022 04:44 UTC

On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 10:30:10 AM UTC-8, mitchr...@gmail.com wrote:

> They behave the same by being an unlimited small difference
> that is still nonzero.

Wrong, Mitch, they are exactly the same thing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...#:~:text=The%20meaning%20of%20the%20notation,%3D%201.

"... and so 0.999... = 1"

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by: Cody Alba - Sun, 9 Jan 2022 17:25 UTC

Paul Alsing wrote:

> On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 10:30:10 AM UTC-8, mitchr...@gmail.com
> wrote:
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>> They behave the same by being an unlimited small difference that is
>> still nonzero.
>
> Wrong, Mitch, they are exactly the same thing...
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
0.999...#:~:text=The%20meaning%20of%20the%20notation,%3D%201.
>
> "... and so 0.999... = 1"

that's written by a moron. You are an idiot. Dr. Mitchell is a doctor.

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by: mitchr...@gmail.com - Sun, 9 Jan 2022 18:16 UTC

On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 8:44:37 PM UTC-8, Paul Alsing wrote:
> On Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 10:30:10 AM UTC-8, mitchr...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > They behave the same by being an unlimited small difference
> > that is still nonzero.
> Wrong, Mitch, they are exactly the same thing...

No. They are different by the smallest quantity nonzero you moron...
You ought to consider calculus first quantity after no quantity.

Subject	Author
.9 repeating and 1 are not the same quantity	mitchr...@gmail.com
Re: .9 repeating and 1 are not the same quantity	Paul Alsing
Re: .9 repeating and 1 are not the same quantity	Cody Alba
Re: .9 repeating and 1 are not the same quantity	mitchr...@gmail.com