Posted: Feb 25, 2010 6:27 pm
Vorticity wrote:Since this is a brand new forum to which I myself am new, I thought it fitting that I should start by contributing this inevitable and indispensable thread to the mathematics section. Each and every forum of this sort is guaranteed to have this as an acrimonious 30+ page thread eventually, so we might as well do it now. So let's have at it...
I assert that the repeating decimal 0.9999999... is exactly, rigorously, and indisputably equal to 1.
I submit that anyone in disagreement with this is, in fact, a nematode.
Thoughts?
I am the one who cannot grasp it!
Please feel free to batter your head against my blank mathematical wall in frustration.
Ready?
But it can't be 1 because it's got a 0 at the beginning!
