Tuesday, September 02, 2008

0.999...

I just found an interesting article on Wikipedia talking about how the notations "0.999…" and "1" represent the same real number.  At first glance, I didn't see how that could be correct (which is a common misconception) but the proofs are actually quite simple (at least some of them are).  In general, I wish I had more time for random stuff like this.  There are so many things I'd like to learn more about.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I don't understand this. why is there a way to write 0.9999999... if it is just the same as 1? explain it to me later. love you