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Originally Posted by Rndm_Perfection
That's all of your problems.
You're all thinking in terms of the foolish scientific theory... the theory that if someone aims to reach a destination, they will fail 100% of the time. Why, you ask? Because to get somewhere, you must travel half the distance... then half that distance... To get anywhere, you must infinitely travel half the distance. How does one manage to skip traveling half the distance? It's because infinite is irrelevant to real world applications. Infinite is a term.
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Scary. That made sense.
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If it cannot be understood that .99(repeated) is the same number as 1, then I will conclude any attempt of sensibility and leave it at the fact that this is merely a a gaming forum.
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Hmmm. You use the whole "This is merely a gaming forum" everytime a topic gets tricksy or out of control.
But, after much reviewing (and the fact that for some reason what Rndm said finally clicked and made sense...) I have concluded that .999~ is equal to 1. Because, as random has already pointed out, the difference between the two is .000~. Though it is hard to except, because we have been tought since 1st grade that decimals do NOT equal to a whole number...
I believe that the concept of .999~ = 1 is so hard to understand because it is virtually impossible for the human mind to concieve "infinity". No matter how hard you try, you can't really get the perfect idea of "infinite" into your head.