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Jay520 on 28 April 2013
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MDMAlliance said:


I do not think you understand the concept.  The 9's (as we represent it as) will continue forever.  There's no end to it.  Infinity is not a number.  You may not be able to wrap your mind around that, but it's okay.  Not many people can.  

There is no "number higher than 0.9999r"  
When you go by that scale, you never reach 1 because you set your limit to 1.  There are an endless amount of points between 0 and 1.

 The 9's (as we represent it as) will continue forever.  There's no end to it.  Infinity is not a number. 

You must also concede that pi isn't a number either, since it repeats forever AND it doesn't have a pattern.

You must also concede that 1/9 isn't a number since (in decimal form), it repeats forever. (Even though 1/9 definitely IS a number).

When you go by that scale, you never reach 1 because you set your limit to 1.  There are an endless amount of points between 0 and 1.

Huh? I know there's an infinite amount of points between 0 and 1. There is an infinite amount of numbers between any two real different numbers. That's not the case for 0.9999... and 1.