Virgil
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Re: 0.9999.... = 1 means mathematics ends in contradiction
Posted:
Feb 8, 2013 4:23 AM
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In article
<8422f6ea-4891-4c77-b538-b3a192619bef@z4g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>,
JT <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 Feb, 09:22, Virgil <vir...@ligriv.com> wrote:
> > In article <34c7e888-f148-455c-846c-4c44a5d0dfa1@googlegroups.com>,
> >
> > spermato...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > > simply
> > > 0.9999.... is a non-finite number/
> >
> > For the number represented by 0.999..., which is clearly greater than
> > zero, to be infinite, it would have to at least be greater than 1 as
> > well, but is not!
> >
> > If you mean that 0.999... represents an infinitely long numeral, that is
> > something quite different.
> >
> > If you cannot distinguish between a numeral and the number it
> > represents, you are too ignorant to be posting to sci.math.
> > --
>
> It is the same concepts Virgil you should now
I do not know how to 'now' concepts.
> that 1/inf of the same
> size as N/inf,
That depends on whether N is a member of the set of naturals numbers or
is the set of natual numbers itself.
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