With every decimal place to the right you go, the distance between .99999999.... and 1 gets smaller and smaller. And since it's to infinity, the distance between that and one is pretty much nothing
Or, the distance is infinite.
You know, because .999... ever makes it to 1.
Take Calculus 2 and you won't be confused.
I know you think this is coherent? But it is not.
Like seriously.
This has nothing to do with atoms. What the hell?
With every decimal place to the right you go, the distance between .99999999.... and 1 gets smaller and smaller. And since it's to infinity, the distance between that and one is pretty much nothing
.999=1. It's the same as 1 divided by infinity equals zero. Think of it this way, how big is the space between .999 and 1. Since the 9s repeat to infinity it must be an infinitely small number. What is an infinitely small number? A number that no other number can be smaller than. The only number that is that small is zero. So 1-.999=0, then 1=.999.
If there's infinitely many zeros then the thing you add to .999... to make it equal to 1 is zero, therefore it is one.
ggnore.
Right. You can never find the difference between .99999999- and 1, if the .9999- goes on for infinity. So the difference would be .000000000- with a 01 on the end that NEVER comes.. So if the 1 never comes, than technically there is no difference. Infinity is beyond our comprehension IMO.. Although sometimes in deep thought I feel it, and I realize thing like time is impossible because there would have been an infinite amount of time before we were born, meaning we were never born.. And other things.
First, there isn't an infinite amount of time before the present. There was no such thing as time before the Big Bang, which was 13.75 billion years ago. Even if time was infinite it wouldn't preclude 'now' from happening.