Re: "10c - c = 9. This is the same as 9c = 9." Is that correct?

"*** T. Winter" <***.Winter@xxxxxx> writes:
In article <1161824445.289243.118470@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Chopra_Reader" <chopra_reader@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Correction included:
> > So where here am I going wrong?
> >
> > 1.) If 10 * 0.999... = 9.999... and

You are going wrong by assuming that 0.999... means anything without ever
defining it.

He's not defined '10' - is it an integer? A real?
Or '*' - what ring are we in?

Do you not accept that there might be a commonly accepted default
meaning to 0.999...?

Phil
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