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Physics contradicts maths - how is this possible?

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12-21-2007 7:56 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Agobot
12-20-2007 5:24 PM

There are a couple of simple mathematical arguments that are related to these ideas:
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x = 0.999...
10x = 9.999...
9x = 9
therefore:
x = 1
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OR
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1/3 = 0.333...
therefore:
1 = 0.999...
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