In article <1180664005.670470.13860@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com> chajadan@mail.com writes: ... > I do not define 0.999... to be a limit and specifically state that I > do not argue such a limit is not in fact 1.
If you do not define it as a limit, you have to define it in some other way such that it is a number. Defining it only as an infinite sequence of digits does not make it a number. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/