Thread: 1=0.99999....
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Jun4-05, 09:24 AM   #6
 
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Well, this isn't the philosophy forum, so .

The usual fallacy from which most suffer when objecting to 1 = 0.999... is that they are confusing a mathematical object with the notation used for that object.

And frankly, it boggles me why people have such trouble working through this confusion: they have no problem with 10/15 and 14/21 being different notations for the same object.