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Dear Hurkyl: You said: Even the greatest teacher cannot teach someone who is unwilling to learn. I say, Amen. You also said: You have one chance to convince me that you truly and genuinely do not understand that the notations 0.(9) and 0.999... are being used to notate a decimal with a...

Dear zgozvrm: Thanks for your response. My post was removed, so I stopped visiting the site since my honest logical discussion of this fairly simple subject matter was censored, and I am surprised to receive your response. It's a sad day when dogma is enforced as a substitute for logic and...

Borek wrote: "Yes it does. 0.(9) = 1, It can be proven in zillion ways. Search the forums for proofs as they were posted on many occasions. The key is in word 'forever.'" Thanks for your response. Perhaps you could recommend how to go about the search you suggest. There are many thousands...

CjStaal wrote "I know, and conform to the ideal that .9 infinitely repeating does in fact equal 1 but I have a thought that keeps bothering me. How can.999...(repeating forever) multiplied by 2, equal 2?" It can't, and doesn't. Simple. Why do you conform to the ideal, since it is clearly...