.999999999... = 1?

[Lord Bowser]

saw this same question in another forum and it turned into a huge debate, wonder what will happen here

does .9999999999... = 1?

 

[DragonFreak]

No. Unless of course you put in limitations like "round to x number" and then it would be 1.

 

[Dr. Javelin]

for all intents and purposes, it is equal to one

if you'd like to turn this into a discussion on empricism vs rationalism then i'd be happy to oblidge

 

[Keqing]

yes

1/3 + 2/3 = .999... ~ 1

 

[fantanoice]

0.3.. + 0.3.. + 0.3.. = 0.9.. = 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...

So yes

 

[Lord Bowser]

the people who say yes have their points
only one naysayer as of now but didn't give a reason

personally I say yes cause of this:
1/3(.333...) + 2/3(.666...) = 3/3(.999...) = 1

 

[GBA]

yes for the reason mentioned above

man i'm slow

 

[Crackin355]

yes

 

[Cirdec]

Good proof:

 

[Megamario15]

Good proof:

Explain.

Also, no. 1 has a decimal point here: 1.0. .999... has a decimal here: 0.999...

Thus they can't be the same.

 

[Cirdec]

In my country I use a "," instead of a "." to separate the decimal values.

My formula bases on this one