2010-03-12, 10:31 PM
It's correct, they're one and the same, it's just the representation of real numbers that people have trouble conveying. Instead of using integer as the base, it could easily be represented by 0 and 0.999... as the endpoints, then 1 itself wouldn't have existed, or like, counterargument for this again. It's like cutting a pie into pieces, when you sum the pieces with the lines, you get 0.999..., without the cuts, you get 1. They're one and the same. 1/9 = 0.111..., 2/9 = 0.222..., ... , 9/9 = 0.999... and 1.

