Originally Posted by Nexuapex
The real reason I'm believe all the explanations that say that 0.[9] = 1 is that every decimal number we've ever used has an infinite repeating portion, and that doesn't keep them from being real numbers.
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Uhm...wow.
*deep breath*
What's 0.[0]?
Think about that.
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every decimal number we've ever used has an infinite repeating portion
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1. No.
2. Ok, you can say that, yeah. What's the difference here?
The repeating portion is zero. You're saying 0.[0] is the same as 0.[1], 0.[2], 0.[3], etc etc...
This isn't that hard, guys. You can try to convince yourself in every way imaginable...but 0.[9] is
NOT one, and 0.0000......1 is
NOT 0.