This little guy craves the light of knowledge and wants to know why 0.999... = 1. He wants rigour, but he does accept proofs starting with any sort of premise.

Enlighten him.

    • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      A real number can't be approaching anything. It is not a function or any other sort of object that can be said to be approaching anything.

    • dat_math [they/them]
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      5 months ago

      No. 0.99 is 0.9+0.09. The proof I gave shows that 0.99999999999999999999999999999999999(...) is equal to 1.