.99999... ~= 1

Posted at June 20, 2006 11:02 AM - Category: Stuff

I've never seen so much nerd rage generated over any one topic as the great .99999... == 1 debate. It's currently being "discussed" on digg. Read through that and tell me that's not the most anger you've seen over one simply equation.

BTW, the answer is that 0.99999... approximately equals 1. It's related the fact that infinity has no decimal representation, in that, 0.9999... is represented in decimal form as an approximation. Taking advantage of that fact results in the ability to say 0.99999... == 1. In decimal form, it does. In conceptual form, it does not.