Re: Problems I have with 1.999...=2

Kirby Cook <kwmc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>step...@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Kirby Cook <kwmc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> : Let me try it another way. My assertion might be stated (I hope)
as
>> : follows. Given the set whose elements are nine tenths, nine
tenths plus
>> : nine hundredths, nine tenths plus nine hundredths plus nine
thousandths,
>> : etc., the least upper bound of the set is one, and one is not a
member
>> : of the set.
>> That is true. 1 is not a member of the set { .9, .99, .999, ... }.

>> But if .999.... is a set, then it is not a number,
>> and the question does 1=.999.... does not make much sense.
>> If you interpret .999.... as a number, which is what most people
>> do, then you really do not have a lot of choices about what number
>> it is.
>> Stephen

>Since the preceding post could only be described as inattentive,

The preceding post is perfectly attentive. Makes perfect sense to me.

You think it is not attentive simply because you refuse to understand
the simplest thing that EVERYBODY is telling you. Everybody!

> I was going to ignore it. But I won't, after all.

How kind of you!

Why do you insist on insulting those who try their very best to explain
elementary math to you?

If you are here to understand math - then try to understand what
experts are saying to you.

But if you are here to prove that you are superior to those, who
understand math, you are in the wrong group. Go to
sci.ignorant.jerks.who.like.to.insult.science.

>My point, which I consider sufficient, is that .999... is a
>member of the described set, and 1 isn't.

Which described set? The set, which comes from the following list:

..9
..99
..999
....

..999999999999999999
.....


Where is ".999..." in this list? I don't se it. In what position
in the list is it? In position 35? In position 55673443? Tell us where
the "number" (or the string) ".999..." is in your list. There
is no member of the set that contains the substring "..".

It is not there.

.

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