Thread: .999~=1!

Ahrgh!

These threads are like an infinitely recurring nightmare.

The .9999~ is not equivalent to the value that comes after the decimal in 9.9999~.

NO.

But it is exactly why 0.999~ does not equal 1.
It is used for all intents and purposes to equal 1.
But by its very definition it "infinitely approaches 1, never reaching it".

NO.

Numbers don't APPROACH anything, they are FIXED values. Note that 0.999~ represents an INFINITE string of 9s, not ROUGHLY 0.999.

The fact is that it has been proved in the first post and you can't argue, as has been said above, with a mathematical proof. Especially not with words and analogies.

it's widely accepted in mathematics that the function that represents a parabola can approach but never be equal to it's asymptote at any point on the graph, even though it can close the 'space' to infinitesimally small distances.

Lord, you sound extremely intelligent. I'm in awe at the largeness of your words.

Except parabolas don't even have any asymptotes.