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Topic: It is a very bad idea and nothing less than stupid to define 1/3
= 0.333...

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 Markus Klyver Posts: 702 Registered: 5/26/17
Re: It is a very bad idea and nothing less than stupid to define 1/3
= 0.333...

Posted: Oct 4, 2017 3:06 PM

Den tisdag 3 oktober 2017 kl. 22:04:52 UTC+2 skrev John Gabriel:
> On Tuesday, 3 October 2017 15:40:54 UTC-4, burs...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Nope, doesn't make any sense at all. Just plain
> > crazy. Why would you write a formula for a partial
> > sum as a number:
> >
> > If ... means n-th place, then this here:
> >
> > 0.999...
> >
> > Would mean:
> >
> > 1-10^(-n)
> >
> > So it would not be a number, but an expression with
> > a varying place holder n. Making this exxpression
> > here also dependent on n:
> >
> > 0.999... = 1
> >
> > But fact is that the following expression:
> >
> > 0.999...
> >
> > Has the meaning:
> >
> > lim n->oo (1-10^(-n))

>
> No. 0.999... = \sum_{k=1}^{\infty} 9/(10^k)
>

> >
> lim_{n \to \infty} \sum_{k=1}^{n} 9/(10^k) has the value:
> >
> > 1
> >
> > Am Dienstag, 3. Oktober 2017 21:15:40 UTC+2 schrieb netzweltler:

> > > The meaning of "..." is absolutely clear in this context and we both know that there is a nth decimal place for each n ? N in 0.999...

\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} 9/(10^k) is defined as lim_{n \to \infty} \sum_{k=1}^{n} 9/(10^k). Hence, 0.999... = 1.

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