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Author Topic:   Math's Arbitrary Non-Necessary Necessarily-Disconnected Conventional Link to Reality
Iblis
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Message 14 of 24 (544683)
01-27-2010 8:50 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by nwr
01-27-2010 2:59 PM


Re: Math's Arbitrary Non-Necessary Necessarily-Disconnected Conventional Link to Real
I have never asked an intuitionist about whether 0.9999... is equal to 1.
I've answered already though, at Message 81. It is. To me, it's like asking whether 1 - 0 - 0 - 0 ... is somehow different from 1. I cannot understand most of the arguments from the other side, they seem to be trying to say that one divided by infinity is something other than 0.
I don't have any problem with repeating decimals, they are simply a weird effect of the base system. I do have a problem with non-repeating decimals, but it is not the same problem the constructivists apparently have.
Interestingly, CatholicScientist gives a variation on the same proof that I do. Message 7

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