0.999...
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0-999-172-4141534
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0.999...
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In mathematics, 0.999... denotes the smallest number greater than every number in the sequence. It can be proved that this number is 1; that is,
- 0.999... = 1. Despite common misconceptions, 0.999... is not "almost exactly 1" or "very, very nearly but not quite 1"; rather, 0.999... and "1" are exactly the same number. An elementary proof is given below that involves only elementary arithmetic and the fact that there is no positive real number less than all 1/10n, where n is a natural number,
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Alternative decimal expansion of 1
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...
date created:
2005-05-06T17:48:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T19:52:01Z
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