0.99999~ = 1 ?

I've seen this thing come along a couple of times on the internet, and was curious what our local math guys think about this.It is my understanding that 0.9999~ does indeed equal 1.I could be wrong though.So, any thoughts on this?

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My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
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I guess you are then, because they are. If you don't think they are equal, try answering this question: "What is the difference between 1 and 0.9999~." If they are not equal, there should be a difference, no?Also try this explanationX = 0.9999~
10X = 9.9999~
10X - X = 9
9X = 9
X = 1

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I hunt for the truthI am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

Actually, the difference in both cases would be completely non-existent. No, for when you elave o pissibility open, there should be an end to you "string of nines" no matter how long it gets. Wit 99.9999~% however, that's not the case. Answer the question I asked Briterican if you think they are not the same number: "What 's the difference between 0.9999~ and 1". There should be a difference if they are not equal. No, it's like saying: "I went to Constantinople" and "I went to Istanbul". They're both the same place, just different ways of writing them. But 0.999~ IS 1.

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I hunt for the truthI am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

No. 0.9999~ does not equal infinity. It equals one. Just as 1.999~ equals 2 and so on. I don't know enough about quantum mechanics to answer that question. Perhaps Son Goku or Cavediver can.

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I hunt for the truthI am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

Ah yes. Even if every digit were the size of only 1 planck volume, the observable universe would still not be big enough to contain a digital representation of it (or so wiki says )

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I hunt for the truthI am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

Yes, since they are the same. How many steps does an infinte chain contain then? And what is infinity + 1?

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I hunt for the truthI am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

That they are equal? Look through this thread, I'd say. Otherwise, look it up on wiki, there are some nice proofs there as well. More than infinity? How's that even possible? Indeed. Infinity + 1 = infinity.Have you heard of the Hotel with infinite rooms analogy? It goes something like this:There is a Hotel that has an infinte number of rooms and an infinite number of guests. Now, one more guests checks into the hotel. How do they fit that guest into the hotel? Simple, they move all the guests one room, and the free room can now be occupied by the new guest.Now, how many rooms does the hotel have? Still an infinite amount. Ah yes, there are more then one infinity.Try this for a fun experiment. Take a circle, now, draw lines of infinitely small width from its center to its edge. How many lines are tehre? An infinite amount. Now, draw a bigger circle around it, and extend your lines outward to that circles edge. Suddenly there are spaces between the lines! But how can this be, if the lines are infinite? Apparently, to math guys, they are.

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I hunt for the truthI am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

A very nice video related to this subject. Link here

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I hunt for the truthI am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

What is it about math that makes people go mad, anyway? Or is it simply mad people that practice math?

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I hunt for the truthI am the one Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequious and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic, sacred whore.
-Lyrics by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead

Zeno's paradox that's called. The way I see it the problem is with the fact that there will be an infinite number of actions from both captain marvel and superman. given that there are an infinite number of times captain marvel will throw out a coconut, there will be no coconuts in the pit. the fact that superman throws in an infinite amount doesn't matter. In fact, maybe this helps: (superman's infinite coconuts) - (captain marvel's infinite coconuts) = 0Sounds logical to me, though it's probably completely wrong.

What's also interesting is that in both cases, an infinite amount of coconuts have left the pit. Even when, in the second example, there is also an infinite amount left in the pit.Oh infinities, what fun they are to boggle the mind!