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Originally posted by T_Samner
I'm guessing you're counting on the round-off error that you would get with a calculator after performing a series of operations. The fact is that between any two distinct real numbers there is always another distinct real number so only 1 = 1.
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That's the thing-- .99999.... and 1 are not distinct, they are the same #. Between any two real numbers, there are actually an infinite number of other rational numbers (and reals too).
I typed the proof out in Mathematica so it'd be easier to see:
