Tag: base-10
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Does 0.9999… = 1 make sense in respect to other base numerical systems?
The other day I was thinking about how 0.99999 repeating is equivalent to the number 1. Which suddenly got me wondering, how can this actually be true? 0.999… is only a representation of the closest we can get to the integer one using the symbols available to us in base ten (decimal counting system). Because…
