In article <1180681185.812415.185030@q19g2000prn.googlegroups.com> chajadan@mail.com writes: ... > Jesse I'm glad you brought this up. It is imperative people understand > I am using 0.999... to be literally the series. I do this for a very > important reason. I do not claim the limit of 0.999... is not one as > the number of positions approaches infinity. People are taught that > 0.999... is equal to 1 years before they are ever taught about limits. > I am saying that the full sum of the series would never equal 1,
As the "full sum" is not defined in mathematics, it is trivial that it is not 1. It is no other number either. It is undefined. Unless you provide a definition for an infinite sum. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924131 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; http://www.cwi.nl/~dik/
