.999999 = 1

[banditcom]

Yep.

Although stats is even more of a bitch all together, since it's so retarded.

[altairian]

haha yeah, i'm taking stats this semester... after reading aperson's other thread, I'm not looking forward to it =\

[banditcom]

I got a damn C+ in my stats class a year ago. It was so lame. We only had tests and I just f'ed up the questions so badly. I KNEW the stuff, no problem... it was just a mess, that's all. So many things could look like they would work, but yet they won't. Then last semester I had computer simulations and the first few weeks were all stats crap. All it is is a mess of formulas for each little area, and a billion unneeded terms.

[altairian]

hehe, now I'm REALLY looking forward to it...........not......

[banditcom]

AP stats in highschool was retarded as well... but I aced that. :P

[Arch0wl]

Holy shit, move this to critical thinking, I REALLY doubt many people on this current forum give a flying fuck if .9999999999999 = 1

[Privateer]

This should defintely be in critical thinking. This is like, the hardest people on FFR have had to ever think. Their brains are probably mushed in their heads right now.

Yeah yeah, we've all heard these little slick ways to be like 'omgzo0rs its teh 54+4=infinity hahahaha."

[aleco]

I may just be stupid, but doesn't 0.999999999.... minus 1 equal 0.00000000000....1?

[jimerax]

I may just be stupid, but doesn't 0.999999999.... minus 1 equal 0.00000000000....1?

0.000000.....infinity, this is equal to 0.

[makaveli121212]

or 1/9 = .1111111111111
2/9 = .2222222222222
3/9 = .3333333333333
4/9 = .4444444444444
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.
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9/9 = .99999999999999 = 1

there you go...it doesnt get simpler than that

[VxDx]

yeah, I mean it's simple enough for you to understand...

[makaveli121212]

ok asian lover

[banditcom]

Holy shit, move this to critical thinking, I REALLY doubt many people on this current forum give a flying fuck if .9999999999999 = 1

Actually that doesn't equal 1. .9999... (repeating) does though.

.9999999999999 = .9999999999999 :P

I may just be stupid, but doesn't 0.999999999.... minus 1 equal 0.00000000000....1?

Read my posts. There is no difference. There is no 1 at the end. It's infinately many 0s, which as jimerax said, is equal to 0.

[altairian]

aleco, sorta, but you have to realize there's an infinite number of zeroes in front of that 1, so basically that number is so small that you might as well forget that 1 is even there and just call the darn thing 0.

jimerax, like I said before, you could never ever prove that an infinitely small number is equal to zero.

makaveli, that explanation sucks
A number divided by itself can never equal anything other than 1, so you cannot say that 9/9 = .999 repeating

[aleco]

Yeah, I figured that out but I was away so I couldn't edit it, sorry.