Re: Bedeviled by the .999~ = 1 "debate"

maybe you could rephrase that into less
than 10-billion words. but I think that
you miss the only "point" I was making, that
hte problem is endemic to the definition of "decimals"
per se and in any integer base. this was noted
by "Simon Stevin" in the 15th cce,
in his little book that revolutionized accounting
(see Oystein Ore's _Number Theory and Its History_).

the main problem is that the quibblers almost never use,
1.0000..., but just "1."

> > it is supposed to be; it's the sole ambiguity of the decimals,
> > as defined by Stevin in the 15th cce!

> Correct up to this point. :-)

> First of all infinite can have the start and the end like finite: Consider
> reals between 0 and 1, i.e the set of reals [0,1]. Infinite many reals -
> indead, but the start is at zero and the end is at 1, both of them included.
> In this case of infinity we have the start and the end. Right?

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