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Math's Arbitrary Non-Necessary Necessarily-Disconnected Conventional Link to Reality

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01-27-2010 3:06 PM

Reply to: Message 6 by nwr
01-27-2010 2:59 PM

Re: Math's Arbitrary Non-Necessary Necessarily-Disconnected Conventional Link to Reality

My best guess is that intuitionists and constructivists would agree that 0.9999... is equal to 1. That they are equal is a matter of well accepted convention.

My constructivist friend denies the existence of the limit implied by .9999~, but accepts .9999~ symbollically as a representation of 1. Similary with .33333~ and 1/3, etc.

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