Zkuq on 29 April 2013
This thread is really getting on my nerves. People who don't understand mathematics are trying to argue about mathematics.
It's simple, really. The decimal system is flawed in the sense that one number can have to different decimal expressions. A number isn't how it's expressed in the decimal system, a number is something else. The decimal expression is just one way to express a number. As for those arguments that are trying to be logical or trust intuition: Forget it, you're doing it wrong. Intuition goes right out of the window when you're dealing with limits and infinities. 0.999... and 1 are different only in their printed form but mathematically, they are exactly the same number.
