Quote (BreakPoint @ May 18 2010 03:26am)

No, that is not philosphical thinking, that's just how it is.



Those are rational numbes. 1/3, 2/3, 3/3, and .333, .666, and .999 are irrational.

Quote (Hammer_Hdin @ May 18 2010 03:04am)

Wrong again.
An infinitely recurring decimal is a rational number.
If it was infinitely non-recurring (eg. a surd) then it would be irrational (such as 1/7) but if it is infinitely recurring (such as 1/3) then it is a rational number.
And as for 3/3, that is an integer which is a whole number.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...

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Students of mathematics often reject the equality of 0.999… and 1, for reasons ranging from their disparate appearance to deep misgivings over the limit concept and disagreements over the nature of infinitesimals. There are many common contributing factors to the confusion:

    * Students are often "mentally committed to the notion that a number can be represented in one and only one way by a decimal." Seeing two manifestly different decimals representing the same number appears to be a paradox, which is amplified by the appearance of the seemingly well-understood number 1.[35]
    * Some students interpret "0.999…" (or similar notation) as a large but finite string of 9s, possibly with a variable, unspecified length. If they accept an infinite string of nines, they may still expect a last 9 "at infinity".[36]
    * Intuition and ambiguous teaching lead students to think of the limit of a sequence as a kind of infinite process rather than a fixed value, since a sequence need not reach its limit. Where students accept the difference between a sequence of numbers and its limit, they might read "0.999…" as meaning the sequence rather than its limit.[37]

Quote (Hammer_Hdin @ May 18 2010 07:04am)

Wrong again.
An infinitely recurring decimal is a rational number.
If it was infinitely non-recurring (eg. a surd) then it would be irrational (such as 1/7) but if it is infinitely recurring (such as 1/3) then it is a rational number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...[/COLOR]

Quote (shinigamiapple777 @ May 18 2010 01:36am)

.99999....=.99999.... and 1 = 1. they are not the same number, or the same number in a different form, so they are not equal

Quote (chone @ May 18 2010 05:49pm)

Rationals and irrationals are simple.  A rational number is a number which can be expressed as a ratio (get it? ratio? rational?) of two integers.  An irrational number is a number that is not rational; that is, it cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers.  You said 1/7 is irrational.  But 1/7 is a ratio of two integers; thus 1/7 is rational.  See: 1/7 IS "recurring" as you put it - it's .142857 over and over forever.

But all this talk of rationals and irrationals doesn't have anything to do with the question.

And FUCK ME how did this thread get to be so enormous?  Lock this shit up.  .999...=1 is fact.  If you think otherwise, you're wrong.

Oh, I see how this thread got to be so big.  It's because really fucking stupid people like:

post in here.

Quote (chone @ May 18 2010 06:20pm)

Yeah, you can see what I mean, huh?  You're one of the retards in you still think 1/7 is irrational.

edit: unless ur trollin lol