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Gödel, Tarski, & Logic. (for grace2u)

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11-20-2003 10:08 AM 		Reply to: Message 18 by grace2u
11-20-2003 9:22 AM

In this case the difference between a mathematician and an engineer is that the engineer would be satisifed with a finite series of '9's.
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From a mathematicians point of view we would say that :
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There is no e > 0 such that 1 - 0.9999... > e
Therefore 1 = 0.9999....
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(I won't try to get Greek text so you'll have to settle for an 'e' instead of an epsilon)
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