MDMAlliance said:
Jay520 said:
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.
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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.
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You completely missed the point. I did not say non-whole numbers don't exist.
Also, the decimal system is a form of expressing a quantity but it is flawed. However, we can still express those numbers even though they do not fit into one system. 1/9 is expressed as a fraction. Pi is expressed as the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of a circle.
.999... (repeated) is expressed through series that go on "infinitely"
There's a major difference between those.
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And the number e in non-decimal form looks like this:
or this:
or alternatively:
Yeah, all those look great.
