Re: .99999... still=/= 1

anonymous_at_mathforum.org
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 18:30:48 +0000 (UTC)

On 02 Dec 2004, S. Enterprize Company wrote:
>>"S. Enterprize Company" <smart1234@aol.com> wrote in message
>>news://20041201035214.21909.00001535@mb-m06.aol.com...
>>> >mister Company is going to love this.
>>> > I just found an application of 0.9999...,
>>> >over and above "OVERFLOW CONDITION" or "TENS COMPLIMENT."
>>>
>>> That's because,
>>>
>>> m--> oo
>>> Lim (1 - 1/10^m) = 1
>>>
>>> divergent
>>
>>Convergent.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Ok don't my word for it, but at least believe the actual Advanced Engineering
>Math Book I have.
>
>Quoting from:
>
>6th Edition
>"Advanced Engineering Mathematics"
>by Erwin Kreyszig
>Page 805
>
>
>"14.2 Convergence Tests for Series
>
> Theorem 1 ( Divergence )
>If a series z_1 + z_ 2 + .... converges, then
>
> lim Z_m = 0
> m-->oo
>
>Hence if the series does not satisfy this condition, it diverges."
>
>
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>
In 1959 Mr. Hoyt, my Vocational Ag teacher informed my class that a person with an I,Q,
of 79 obtained a degree from Iowa State University( a fairly top notch Engineering institution). I didn't believe him until reading your verbose garbage.

I assume that I will find you name enshrined in crankdom

hjs

"no one can understand a math subject until they have been through the next highter
level, ie you don't understand trig until you have completed calculus" E.E. "Doc" Smith.