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Posted 30 September 2005 - 12:10 PM

well it is true for some VERRY specific conditions that have been set
(e.g. object limited to a point) ...

and only under these specific conditions you could really call it true.

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Posted 01 October 2005 - 09:53 PM

The role of the physician


I'm sure you meant "physicist" :) a physician is the one who heals you :nod:

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Posted 02 October 2005 - 07:21 AM

I'm sure you meant "physicist" :) a physician is the one who heals you :nod:

Well you're right :D

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Posted 03 October 2005 - 10:15 AM

I can't agree with that.

Like liquid said, Math and Physics are intensively used to describe the world and the reality; they can only provide a description, a mathematical representation of a real phenomemon. This description is accurate more especially as the results we can get from it are close to the reality, but it will never be the reality.

The role of the physician is to find some new (simple) mathematical models to represent as better as possible a (complex) reality.
...

There is almost nothing "true" in physics. You can only say if a model is more or less accurate (and again, this depends strongly on the considered situation).
...

I'm convinced there IS a mathematical model that "real universe" is based upon, even if our today's physicists don't know this model yet. However, they're looking for it ;)

I agree that what e.g. Newton did and when he came to the conclusion that the formula "s = 0.5 a*t?" describes the physical process of accelerated move, he only described more or less accurate what he was able to see (later Einstein proved that this description was NOT accurate, and maybe there will be another physicist one day how tells us that even Einstein description is not accurate).

Nevertheless (and regardless on if physicists will ever find it), you must agree there must be a mathematical model behind all this, how else could it work?

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Posted 03 October 2005 - 05:41 PM

Maybe there is an exact mathematical model (but I still have doubts about that), but well, it would be so complex than we could never use it for concrete applications, thus it hasn't a great interest ;)

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Posted 03 October 2005 - 06:56 PM

I can't agree with that.

Even if it would be complex we could feed it to a computer and it could, maybe, draw conclusions or find connections we've never thought about.

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Posted 04 October 2005 - 08:23 AM

..., but well, it would be so complex than we could never use it for concrete applications, thus it hasn't a great interest

Maybe such a model even would be much less complex than we would expect that. Imagine for example how simple Einstein's formulas are compared to what they are able to describe. You don't need inevitable a complex model to describe complex things.

And remember: there are some complex things that were not obeserved first and then described, but predicted by these formulas for the first time and observed only decades later then (black holes for example). So you should be carefull with statements like this.

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Posted 24 October 2005 - 01:19 PM

<stupid demonstration>

Try this on a ClassPad 300

ExpToStr 0.99999999999999...,str1
ExpToStr 1,str2
StrCmp str1,str2,cmp

-> cmp<>0 !!! :roflol:

so 0.99999999999999...<>0

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Posted 29 October 2005 - 10:09 PM

well, calculators can only be SO accurate..........

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Posted 01 November 2005 - 10:50 PM

@Kilburn
Damn that was a good one :roflol:
now if anyone tries to add an infinite number of nines it will never equal one, wich proves the point that 0.999(9) does not equal 1 :D

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Posted 11 November 2005 - 11:13 PM

0.9 repeating does infact equal 1.
The number 0.9(repeating) can be expressed as the sum of an infinite series: (9/10)(1/10^n) adding it up for all values of n. This can be generalized to the form of a geometric series, the sum of ar^n, which converges to a certain value if the term a is less than 1. The value it would then converge to is : a/(1-r). In our particular series, (9/10)(1/10^n), the term a+(9/10), which is less than 1, so it converges.
using the formula for the sum which if converges to, we find that a/(1-r)=(9/10)/(1-(1/10))=(9/10)/(9/10)=1.
Another proof, based simply off algebra, is as follows.
x=0.99999....
10x=9.99999.... (multiply by 10)
9x=9 (subtract 0.99999... from 9.99999.... since the portion after the decimal in both numbers consists only of nines, they cancel eachother for ever)
x=1 (divide both sides by 9)

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@Kilburn
Damn that was a good one :roflol:
now if anyone tries to add an infinite number of nines it will never equal one, wich proves the point that 0.999(9) does not equal 1 :D



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Posted 12 November 2005 - 09:59 AM

It seems that qwerty841 has really discovered a new specimen of never-ending topic :lol:

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Posted 12 November 2005 - 10:24 AM

but you stated right, that it CONVERGES and that it NEVER equals 1.

Btw. it is the same as with always dividing a number by 2. It NEVER reaches 0 since it only converges.

a0 = 1
an=a(n-1)/2

or an=a0/(2^n)
-->an=1/(2^n)

you would never say that the term 1/(2^n) can equal 0 since no divison with a dividend <> 0 can ever be zero (or you have to show me one :P )

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Posted 12 November 2005 - 11:04 AM

but you stated right, that it CONVERGES and that it NEVER equals 1.

0.999... is the limit of the serie (9/10)*(1/10^n), not a term of it, and this limit is equal to 1 :P

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Posted 12 November 2005 - 12:55 PM

no. the limit is 1 not 0.999.. (type it in your calc)

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Posted 12 November 2005 - 01:56 PM

the limit is 1 not 0.999..

How could you assume that?
You are using an hypothesis saying that 1!=0.999.. , and you may not use it here, since this is what you want to demonstrate.
And about the calculator: if there are 2 equivalent solutions to a problem, the calculator will always give you the 'easiest' form for it; it's exactly the same situation as for +0 and -0 for example. Btw you may not use the results given by a computer here, since we are talking about pure algebra, not about systematic resolutions.

Btw, another demonstration I just thought about (I don't remember if we already said it in the past):
For any real numbers A & B such that A<B you can allways find a real C such that A<C<B. Here this no number between 0.999.. and 1 that would be different from 0.999.., and thus 0.999.. and 1 are the same number.
But now the question is: can we really consider the number 0.999.. as a real number? :lol2:


The situation here hasn't change from the beginning: we are bringing plenty of proofs showing that we may admit without introducing any error or incoherence that 0.999..=1, and the only answers you give are "nah, you may not say it, because 0.999..!=1, that's all". I'm still not planning to change my point of view :)
But since I belong to the people who disagree with you, I'm sure you won't change your opinion neither. But it's okay, I think that I can live without receiving our super admin's approbation once again :rolleyes:

Edited by Orwell, 12 November 2005 - 02:05 PM.


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Posted 12 November 2005 - 06:04 PM

I will say .9999999999999... = 1-epsilon where epsilon is the smallest number to have epsilon>0. So epsilon =/= 0 => .9999999999999... =/= 1 B)

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Posted 12 November 2005 - 10:25 PM

This topic has gone on for like ever... :unsure: How about we give up... Anyway, an infinite limit NEVER equals and equals sign between two values, since for that to happen you would need to carry out the opperation an infinite ammount of times, which you cannot do. You can substitute an equals sign in for a limit when you have an infinite sequence to start with (such as 0.999....). 0.9999.... is equal to the geometric series a mentioned previously, when it is carried out an infinte number of times. since the elipsis (....) represents the infinte number of nines follwing the decimal point, you can put an equals sign in place of the limit (the limit itself is fully contained in the value 0.9....). SO, 0.9...=1. I talked to my calculus teacher, and he agrees with my view, and presented me with a proof nearly the same as mine using the convergence of an infinite series. Hope this helps/inspires us all to give up. :banghead:
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Posted 13 November 2005 - 12:38 AM

For any real numbers A & B such that A<B you can allways find a real C such that A<C<B.

Right, that's the definition of real numbers. A < B means that a C exists with A < C < B beacuse reals are not enumerable like natural numbers.

Meaning: Because there is no C with 0.9... < C < 1, it's 0.9... = 1. Both just describe exactly the same number two different ways (and for those who still don't believe: there are books ;))

But now the question is: can we really consider the number 0.999.. as a real number?


Well, tricky question :) As it equals to 1 and 1 is a real number, 0.9... should be so, too. 1 is 1 no matter how you represent it ("1", "0.9..." or "0.3+0.7"). The point is, though 0.9... with really infinite 9s is exactly 1, you can't use it this representation unless you find a way to read/write/proccess an infinite amount of digits "9" :P

To make clear what I mean (I mentioned it an earlier post already): of course you know "0.9... means 1" and whenever you see a term "0.9... + 2" you would calculate "0.9... means 1, 1 + 2 = 3, so 0.9... + 2 = 3". In fact, you didn't calculate with "0.9..." representing 1, but "1" representing 1 then. Calculating with "0.9..." representing 1 would mean (note that we always can calculate symbolic only, and we have an infinite amount symbols here) you do:

0.9...+2 = 2+9*10^-1+9*10^-2+...+9*10^-oo,

and as you see you can't do that.

==>

0.9... = 1, both just are representation forms of the same real number "1". The form 0.9... is useless for calculation though (-> it has no meaning). If you used it you needed to stop calculating after a concrete amount of digits, and then you would not have calculated with "1" but an approximation of it only.

... Damn <_< I did it again ... I posted in this thrad again. It will never end, it will survive every one of us :nonono:

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Posted 03 July 2006 - 09:33 AM

ive came to the conclusion that our maths and number system doesnt represent the real world, thts why we are having all these problems with infinities etc

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Posted 09 July 2006 - 07:48 PM

I think that we should all re-learn math in based on irrational numbers, seeing that all the useful numbers are irrational (pi & phi are two examples)

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Posted 28 September 2006 - 05:13 PM

it?s all about you decided to define order in real number and the decimal representation of a real number...........please saw Tom.M.Apostol "Calculus" volume 1 (real numbers chapter, but i can?t remember the page) :D , there is the answer to that question...............i hope :lol2: :blink:
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Posted 30 September 2006 - 02:06 PM

Hahaaaa! :D

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Posted 30 September 2006 - 03:10 PM

:blink: and the answer is..............
a calculator can?t understand real numbers, or any number system. it is programed based on mathemathical definitions and properties....so......that picture did not tell me anything............
a calculator calculates based on its program, so, if you program a calc or even a computer based on 2+2=652516210, every time a 2 is + with a 2, the result will be 652516210..........
my trust in calcs is not complete (some people says that 0 is a natural number, others that not, who has the right answer? :blink: :huh: both and neither of them!!!!!!) :lol2:
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Posted 08 October 2006 - 11:06 AM

protoman, please login to post!

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 02:52 PM

Nowadays, infinity didnt definition correctly, simplify that we cant count them. -> That is logic?

0.9999999999... is mean the are infinity "9" number, it will equa to 1, there is no 1 in 0.00000...001 because before we write 1 we must write infinity "0" number and never come to "1".-> That's logic?

The same with 0.999...<n<1, we cant find n because thre are inf. "9" and "inf+i=inf" is true.

0 is nature number? That false. ->That's logic?


I have a question "Universe is infinity?" that make me want to :profanity: and crazy when think about it.

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 03:28 PM

Nowadays, infinity didnt definition correctly, simplify that we cant count them. -> That is logic?

Let's say that people didn't give you a correct definition for infinity yet, you'll see later that all kind of infinities are well defined for a long time ;)

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 12:39 AM

We are calculating by abstract number! that can be royal court-room for any thing. But, why we write 0.999999999.... not 0.(9) and what have a 0.9999... value ?!?

A 1m ruler , we cut it into inf. part, but the sum always 1m.

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 08:23 AM

"abstract" numbers?
Because there are some "concrete" numbers for you? :blink:
A number is just a number, nothing more :)

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 10:53 AM

Orwell, you think 0.99999999... =1, dont you?

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 01:06 PM

Of course I do :)

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 01:20 PM

No thing else to say.

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 02:18 PM

for andy davies.........
man....i?m a member!!!! what do you mean with "please login to post"? :blink:
my guest post was a little.....error on my memory circuits :roflol: , because i forgotten to login beforeb write it...
i hope this never-ending topic will end now :P . machines........wata good creation, and error propagator!!!!!
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Posted 11 October 2006 - 11:03 AM

before posting anything here, read the 6 last pages of the topic and you'll see that 0.99999.... = 1 (it's a mathematical fact and has nothing to do with interpretation)

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Posted 11 October 2006 - 04:11 PM

ok......but i keep thinking that 0.999999999999999999999999999999999.......9999999.... is not equal to 1
i will ask my maths teacher, or mr hilbert :D

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Posted 23 October 2006 - 01:32 PM

Very funny topic, indeed. I don't know why some people want to close it. :(
For the mathematical proof that 0.9999... = 1, I guess we all have our share.

Two questions remain though.

First, this implies that 0.0000...0001 = 0 and some here have troubles to admit it. Of course !

I read that the 1 at the end doesn't exist. Actually, it does, and doesn't depending on the point of view.

It does because it's written there, and we actually are speaking about representation of numbers.
It doesn't because what it represents is... nothing, I mean 0. Because our number writing systems says that the further on the right the digit is, the smallest the value it represents is. Here, it is infinitely far on the right, thus, infinitely small : this means it is equal to 0. And I am NOT speaking about a limit. Beacause writing "..." doesn't implie a limit toward infinity, it implies infinity.
And this is why we have this controversy. Our brain can admit infinity (and its consequences), but can not represent it. So we have two kinds of people, those who admit the equality because there is several mathematical proofs, and those who don't admit it because they don't SEE the logics of it.
Which brings me to my second point.

Logics.

Well, the world of science is full of examples where logics can't deal with infinity. "This sentence is not true", is a good one (though logics found an way to explain why it can't deal with it).
Let's go back to 0.000...001. Logic says : there is a "1", then, this thing is not 0.
My question is where is that 1 ? Infinitely far ? That is where we got a problem.
My answer ? Why do you think we write R=]-00 , +00[ open ? Topology will sure give you the answer.
Or to use the argumentation of those who say "1 is the limit of 9*10^-1+9*10^-2..., then never actually reached", that 1, far away after an infinity of zeroes can't be reached either. Since it can't be reached, its weight is never felt. It's value is 0.
That' is another way to explain it less mathematically and more intuitively.

An other argument is :
You can't multiply 0.3333... by 3 because you have to do an infinity of operations. Well, I can multiply the square root of 2 by itself or by another number - even pi -and it doesn't trouble me. ;)
We don't multiply representations, we multiply the numbers they represent...

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Posted 24 October 2006 - 04:15 AM

Sorry, you wrong.

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Posted 24 October 2006 - 04:20 AM

"Infinity isn't really that far if you look at it from the other end."

- Took that quote from a friend.

There are many ways to show that 0.99999999999999999... = 1.

1.) Simple algebraic:

Variable: x is the variable
Function: f(x) = 10x-x
When x = 1: 10(1)-(1)=9
When x = 0.99999...: 10(0.9999999...)-(0.9999999...)=9

2.) Simple algebraic #2:

1/3 = 0.333333333...
(1/3)*3 = 0.99999... or 1

3.) Simple algebraic #3:

1/11 = 0.09090909...
+ 10/11 = 0.90909090...
= 11/11 = 0.99999999...

4.) Simple arithmetic #4:

2/7 = 0.2857142857...
+ 5/7 = 0.7142857142...
= 7/7 = 0.9999999999...

5.) Method of implying the definition of what makes two numbers equal:

Two numbers are equal if there is no number between the value of two: 0.9999999.... = 1

* EDIT * - It was suppose to say isn't:

6.) "What if you're rounding?" - 0.999999.... = 1 :lol: (Rounding isn't necessary. 0.9999... = 1)

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Posted 24 October 2006 - 10:57 AM

- Took that quote from a friend.
6.) "What if you're rounding?" - 0.999999.... = 1 :lol: (Rounding is necessary. 0.9999... = 1)

I dont think 0.99... is equa to 1 because of rounding. We dont need to round 0.99999999999... to make it become 1, just need saying 0.99999... is 1. :nod:

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Posted 24 October 2006 - 01:16 PM

Sorry, you wrong.

Thanks for your argumentation ! :D

Actually, what we are debating here is very close to Zeno's paradoxes. Since even Zeno himself knew where the reasonning failed, the problem has been solved 2500 years ago. :blink:

I recommend you this
http://en.wikipedia....eno's_paradoxes , and especially this part :

Status of the paradoxes today
Mathematicians thought they had done away with Zeno's paradoxes with the invention of the calculus and methods of handling infinite sequences by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the 17th century, and then again when certain problems with their methods were resolved by the reformulation of the calculus and infinite series methods in the 19th century. Many philosophers, and certainly engineers, generally agree with the mathematical results.

Nevertheless, Zeno's paradoxes are still hotly debated by philosophers in academic circles. Infinite processes have remained theoretically troublesome. L. E. J. Brouwer, a Dutch mathematician of the 19th and 20th century, and founder of the Intuitionist school, was the most prominent of those who rejected arguments, including proofs, involving infinities. In this he followed Leopold Kronecker, an earlier 19th century mathematician. Some claim that a rigorous formulation of the calculus (as the epsilon-delta version of Weierstrass and Cauchy in the 19th century or the equivalent and equally rigorous differential/infinitesimal version by Abraham Robinson in the 20th) has not resolved all problems involving infinities, including Zeno's.

As a practical matter, however, no engineer has been concerned about them since knowledge of the calculus became common at engineering schools. In ordinary life, very few people have ever been much concerned



;)

But actually, if you have more time, you'd better check that : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999... !

The equality 0.999? = 1 has long been taught in textbooks, and in the last few decades, researchers of mathematics education have studied the reception of this equation among students, who often vocally reject the equality. Their reasoning is often based on an expectation that infinitesimal quantities should exist, that arithmetic may be broken, or simply that 0.999? should have a last 9. These ideas are false in the real numbers, as can be proven by explicitly constructing the reals from the rational numbers, and such constructions can also prove that 0.999? = 1 directly. At the same time, some of the intuitive phenomena can occur in other number systems. There are even systems in which an object which can reasonably be called "0.999?" is strictly less than 1.

Skepticism in education
Students of mathematics often reject the equality of 0.999? and 1 for reasons ranging from their disparate appearance to deep misgivings over the limit concept and disagreements over the nature of infinitesimals. There are many common contributing factors to the confusion:

Students are often "mentally committed to the notion that a number can be represented in one and only one way by a decimal." Seeing two manifestly different decimals representing the same number appears to be a paradox, which is amplified by the appearance of the seemingly well-understood number 1.[12]
Some students interpret "0.999?" (or similar notation) as a large but finite string of 9s, possibly with a variable, unspecified length. If they accept an infinite string of nines, they may still expect a last 9 at infinity.[13]
Intuition and ambiguous teaching lead students to think of the limit of a sequence as a kind of infinite process rather than a fixed value, since the sequence never reaches its limit. Those who accept the difference between a sequence of numbers and its limit might read "0.999?" as meaning the former rather than the latter.[14]
These ideas are mistaken in the context of the standard real numbers, although many of them are partially borne out in more sophisticated structures, either invented for their general mathematical utility or as instructive counterexamples to better understand 0.999?.

Many of these explanations were found by professor David Tall, who has studied characteristics of teaching and cognition that lead to some of the misunderstandings he has encountered in his college students. Interviewing his students to determine why the vast majority initially rejected the equality, he found that "students continued to conceive of 0.999? as a sequence of numbers getting closer and closer to 1 and not a fixed value, because 'you haven?t specified how many places there are' or 'it is the nearest possible decimal below 1'".[15]

Of the elementary proofs, multiplying 0.333? = 1/3 by 3 is apparently a successful strategy for convincing reluctant students that 0.999? = 1. Still, when confronted with the conflict between their belief of the first equation and their disbelief of the second, some students either begin to disbelieve the first equation or simply become frustrated.[16] Nor are more sophisticated methods foolproof: students who are fully capable of applying rigorous definitions may still fall back on intuitive images when they are surprised by a result in advanced mathematics, including 0.999?. For example, one real analysis student was able to prove that 0.333? = 1/3 using a supremum definition, but then insisted that 0.999? < 1 based on her earlier understanding of long division.[17]

Joseph Mazur tells the tale of an otherwise brilliant calculus student of his who "challenged almost everything I said in class but never questioned his calculator," and who had come to believe that nine digits are all one needs to do mathematics, including calculate the square root of 23. The student remained uncomfortable with a limiting argument that 9.99? = 10, calling it a "wildly imagined infinite growing process."[18]

As part of Ed Dubinsky's "APOS theory" of mathematical learning, Dubinsky and his collaborators (2005) propose that students who conceive of 0.999? as a finite, indeterminate string with an infinitely small distance from 1 have "not yet constructed a complete process conception of the infinite decimal". Other students who have a complete process conception of 0.999? may not yet be able to "encapsulate" that process into an "object conception", like the object conception they have of 1, and so they view the process 0.999? and the object 1 as incompatible. Dubinsky et al. also link this mental ability of encapsulation to viewing 1/3 as a number in its own right and to dealing with the set of natural numbers as a whole.[19]

Now you even know why you can't accept it... :rolleyes:

In popular culture
With the rise of the Internet, debates about 0.999? have escaped the classroom and are commonplace on newsgroups and message boards, including many that nominally have little to do with mathematics. In the newsgroup sci.math, arguing over 0.999? is a "popular sport", and it is one of the questions answered in its FAQ.[55] The FAQ briefly covers 1/3, multiplication by 10, and limits, and it alludes to Cauchy sequences as well.

A 2003 edition of the general-interest newspaper column The Straight Dope discusses 0.999? via 1/3 and limits, saying of misconceptions,

"The lower primate in us still resists, saying: .999~ doesn't really represent a number, then, but a process. To find a number we have to halt the process, at which point the .999~ = 1 thing falls apart.
Nonsense."
[56]
The Straight Dope cites a discussion on its own message board that grew out of an unidentified "other message board ... mostly about video games". In the same vein, the question of 0.999? proved such a popular topic in the first seven years of Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net forums that the company's president, Mike Morhaime, announced at an April 1, 2004 press conference that it is 1:

"We are very excited to close the book on this subject once and for all. We've witnessed the heartache and concern over whether .999~ does or does not equal 1, and we're proud that the following proof finally and conclusively addresses the issue for our customers."[57]
Blizzard's subsequent press release offers two proofs, based on limits and multiplication by 10.


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