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Re: 0 to the power 0
Posted:
Nov 11, 1996 6:20 PM
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Ted Alper writes:
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>For that matter, one doesn't have to bring up even the non-standard
>reals to distinguish "0.999..." from 1 -- you can do this and define a
>perfectly good total order on the set of all decimal expansions (it
>is, in effect, a Cantor set).
This is using base 11 expansions, where the largest possible digit is not
allowed. In particular, it is changing the arithmetic meaning of .9999..
as a number > 9/10, > 99/100, etc. I.e., it is changing the rules of the
game at the elementary (= first order logic) level, which doesn't quite
seem fair.
Cheers.
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