Comment on I just cited myself.
chaonaut@lemmy.world 4 months agoThis seems to be conflating 0.333…3
with 0.333…
One is infinitesimally close to 1/3, the other is a decimal representation of 1/3. Indeed, if 1-0.999…
resulted in anything other than 0, that would necessarily be a number with more significant digits than 0.999…
which would mean that the …
failed to be an infinite repetition.