Thread: Does .999~ = 1?
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Old 03-23-2004, 11:53 AM   #24
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I was just thinking.... doesn't this blow the hell out of the Theorem of Completitude? I mean, not all of the real numbers are in the real line, since 0.9999999~ can't be in the Real line because simply it doesn't exist because it's in fact 1?
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