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To: reed13k
.999 to infinity is not 1.000 to infinity, it’s an incongruity and noted as such in math texts.

I think you have failed to limit your thinking on this subject.

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1,454 posted on 05/08/2020 10:06:26 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: LonePalm

.999 to infinity is not 1.000 to infinity, it’s an incongruity and noted as such in math texts.


Is that akin to where the ‘proof’ that 2 + 2 can sometimes = 5 comes in? I don’t remember. I understood it at the time in class decades ago but it has faded in clarity.


1,464 posted on 05/08/2020 10:15:28 AM PDT by WaltStuart (Lord, God, please protect President Trump, family, Q-Team et al 1,000%)
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