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Originally Posted by AirKuhl
But if I were inclined to believe otherwise, I might say that we all know that 0.9 does not equal 1. And 0.999999 does not equal 1. So how many 9's specifically do you need before somehow magically it turns into a 1?
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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