.99999(repeating)=1 ?

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.99999(repeating)=1 ?

Postby Chessmaster » Thu Feb 15, 2007 12:35 am

does .999 repeating equal 1 excatly?
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Postby Bigtone53 » Thu Feb 15, 2007 1:00 am

does .999 repeating equal 1 excatly?


Zeno says no.
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Re: .99999(repeating)=1 ?

Postby r.e.s. » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:15 am

Chessmaster wrote:does .999 repeating equal 1 excatly?


See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0.999...

For adic-tional fun, don't miss the part about what integer might be represented as "...999" (repeating to the left).:)
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Postby Chessmaster » Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:02 pm

Bigtone53 wrote:
does .999 repeating equal 1 excatly?


Zeno says no.
who is Zeno?
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Postby Bigtone53 » Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:00 am

Chessmaster, I am not sufficiently adept to give you links to Zeno, but if you google Zeno and paradox, especially the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise, I think that you will see the relevance:D
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Postby Chessmaster » Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:07 am

Ok, I guess.
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Postby MCC » Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:39 am

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Re: .99999(repeating)=1 ?

Postby wapati » Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:18 am

Chessmaster wrote:does .999 repeating equal 1 excatly?


Yes. One third is .333 repeating.

One third plus one third plus one third = 1, exactly.

.333 repeating plus .333 repeating plus .333 repeating = .999 repeating,
which is one.
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Postby Smythe Dakota » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:58 am

Or, to look at it another way:

I challenge anybody to come up with a number larger than .9999.... but less than 1.

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Postby udosuk » Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:16 pm

Let x=0.999999...

10x=9.999999...

9x=10x-x=9.999999...-0.999999...=9

Therefore x=1.

(Q.E.D.)
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Postby Chessmaster » Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:49 pm

Smythe Dakota wrote:Or, to look at it another way:

I challenge anybody to come up with a number larger than .9999.... but less than 1.

Bill Smythe
Thanks i suppose that proves they are equal at least to me.
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Postby MCC » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:22 pm

Smythe Dakota wrote:Or, to look at it another way:

I challenge anybody to come up with a number larger than .9999.... but less than 1.

Doesn't that mean that 0.9999.... and 1 are seperate numbers:?:

Suppose I said, can anybody come up with an integer (whole number) greater than 1 but less than 2, with the implication that if they can't then
1 = 2

However large 0.9999.... gets, it never equals 1.


Pedantically.
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Postby lunababy_moonchild » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:14 pm

MCC wrote:However large 0.9999.... gets, it never equals 1.

I'm inclined to agree with this. However small the difference is, there will always remain a difference, therefore they are not equal.

Just because you don't get enough change from £2 having paid £1.99 for your item to make a difference to your finances doesn't mean that the amounts are mathematically equal - I think:D !

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Postby re'born » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:23 pm

MCC wrote:
Smythe Dakota wrote:Or, to look at it another way:

I challenge anybody to come up with a number larger than .9999.... but less than 1.

Doesn't that mean that 0.9999.... and 1 are seperate numbers:?:

Suppose I said, can anybody come up with an integer (whole number) greater than 1 but less than 2, with the implication that if they can't then
1 = 2



You're right that Bill's argument is not a proof, however, you should not neglect the perfectly valid proof udosuk gave. If you prefer a variation on Bill's argument, consider the following: I define two numbers to be equal if and only if their difference is 0, i.e., a = b if and only if a-b = 0. An immediate consequence of this is that if a<b, then b-a = ε for some positive real number ε.

Assume that .999... ≠ 1. Then 1-(.999...)=ε for some positive real number ε. For any real number x, there exists a unique integer k such that 10^k ≤ x < 10^{k+1}. Fix such a k for our ε. Since 10^k is no bigger than ε, adding it to .999... cannot get you bigger than 1. However, it is easy to see that .999...+10^k > 1, a contradiction. For example, if k = -3, then .99999999...+10^{-3} = .9999999...+.001=1.000999999....


MCC wrote:However large 0.9999.... gets, it never equals 1.


.999... is a fixed number, it can't get larger, it just is what it is, a real number equal to 1. Your statement reminds me of the joke 2+2=5 for large values of 2.
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0.99999 (repeating) = 1?

Postby Cec » Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:31 pm

This is certainly an interesting scenario but I have to conclude 0.999repeating will never equal 1. Here's my logic.....
If 0.9999repeating equals 1 then the difference between these two numbers would be zero but this can never be because...

1.000000000000000 etc. minus
0.999999999999999 etc.
=0.000000000000001 and so on but never becomes zero.

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