Wow, not sure where to begin with this moron. I won't ignore anything (kind of like how you ignored half my post).
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Rofl, you're a fag. You completely misunderstood what I said.
K.
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What I meant was as long as you keep going farther and farther and farther into .99999, it'll be on a different spot.
True.
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For example, .999999999 is bigger than that, so it's closer to 1. .999999999999999 is bigger than that one, so it's closer to 1.
Also true. Hey, maybe you're good at this!
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Only an idiot would think these 2 numbers are the same." The SAME" -> You idiot.
Oh really? So...EVERY mathematician and EVERY mathematics instructor in any college is an idiot?
Hmm.
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Think about it.
OKAY. I'll put my bright pink thinking cap on *just for you* buddy.
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.99999 is not 1. You're still missing that .00001 or whereever that .00000000000000001 was. Doesn't matter. that .0000001 makes al the difference. They're not the same without that .000001.
You're right. But that's for .99999 and .99999999999999 or whatever. You aren't talking about .999... which goes on infinitely. It can't be treated the same as .9 or .999 etc.
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No need to be a dick on here, buddy. It's just a friendly argument.
Indeed. I agree...until you start insulting my intelligence when you are clearly wrong. See, I never insulted you [edit: until this post. Also, faggot]. Sure I may have been a bit condescending, but what math nerd isn't? All I asked was for you to support your arguments.
Which brings me to a fun point. Here: PROVE TO ME that .999... and 1 are not the same number.
I'll even give you some tips and hints along the way. All you have to do to show that these numbers aren't the same is to provide a real number that is between them! Or you could try to prove that the sequence 9/(10^n) does not converge to 1. Or you could try to show that the difference of the two Cauchy sequences {1, 1, ...} and {.9, .09, ...} is not zero (read: prove that the limit of the sequence {1-9/10, 1-9/100, ...} is not zero).
So why can't you do these things? Precisely because .999... and 1 are the same.
Look, here's the simple truth. If you could prove that .999... and 1 are different, then you would literally rewrite all math texts ever. You would be world famous. You would be next to the names of Euclid, Leibniz, Cantor, Hilbert, etc. Graduate students would read your papers because they would be groundbreaking.
No...
seriously.
I can link you to several *very different* rigorous proofs that .999... and 1 are equal. You can link me to ZERO that prove otherwise.
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Now show you have a life and calm down
Eat a bag of dicks.
This post was edited by chone on Jul 21 2010 04:42am