it's infinite repeating decimal.....no finite number of 9's will equal 1. only infinite 9's will equal 1.


otherwise written as:
sigma(9/10+9/10^2+9/10^3+...+9/10^n) approaches 1 as n approaches infinity

I can't figure out why the hare can't catch the tortoise.

In my backyard I've given my turtle healthy head-starts and my rabbit consistently cleans it's clock in the 1/4 yard.

'1' is just a mental construct devised by liberals who believe in science and math.

In the real world there are no absolute '1's.

Due to nonspecific subatomic dispersion and galactic interstitial accumulation '1' always varies between .999999999 and 1.000000001 but is NEVER '1'.

I gets closer over time, and may be close enuff right now.

However, since the universe has a non-infinite lifetime, No.

The problem is that your tortoise is named Zeno.

The hare, being saltorial, is able to leap over such intermediary paradoxes.

How the hare would do against a metadox or even an orthodox is not known.

well...not true. it does occasionally equal 1 but only for an ever brief billioth of a nanosecond

One is the loneliest number .......

how does 0.9999999 or 1.0000000000010 kick in the nads differ from 1 kick in the nads?

When you're dealing with nads, nada.

that's what i figured.

Simple math, it differs by .0000001 and .0000000000010 respectively

geez, every 5th grader knows that! ;)

So yer gonna play the nanosecond card, eh? :mad:

Cool, I'll have to use that next time my wife asks if she's the only "one".




I'll report back if I got 0.99999 or 1.000001 kicks in the nads.

Well sure, pull a limit function out in a polite conversation....

Ok then, if it's a limit then graphically, what we're talking about is a linear asymptotic function where the line you are approaching is "1", right? But by definition, your curve can never touch the line, thus you just proved that 0.9 repeating can never equal 1. :D

hahahhaha

it touches at infinity

but some infinities are bigger than others...

ooooo quite an argument. if u plot value vs n (y axis is 0.999999manydigits, x axis is number of reps), yes the curve will never touch 1 for any finite x. this should be pretty obvious since 0.9(a gajillion digits) still isn't 1. however 0.9(gajillion digits) isn't 0.9(infinite digits). ;)

Next thing ya know someone's gonna gonna pull out the gillette razor theorum. Or was the schick?

Good place for a sister joke, but I ain't going there .............

heh how about this
if we assumed 0.9(infinite) does equal 1 and 0.9(a gajillion) does NOT equal 1

does 0.9(infinity-1 digits) = 1? questionable
does 0.9(infinity-gajillion digits) != 1? questionable

does 0.9(infinity-infinity digits) != 1? ........what? heheh