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Report, edit, etc...Posted by Raindodger on 2006-03-04 at 10:36:41
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I don't get it. So all your logic is that everything that ends with infinitive nines eventually rounds up? 


What DBTK is trying to explain is that

.999.. has an infinity number of nines, since infinity isn't a real number, you have to take it's limit which is one.

Limit
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Definition: the mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity
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