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    Agent Smith reacted to fresh_42's post in the thread 0.999... with Like Like.
    Well, that is the problem! What are those dots? In 0.999\ldots they represent repeating nines, in 3.141592653589793238462 \ldots...
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    fresh_42 replied to the thread 0.999....
    Well, that is the problem! What are those dots? In 0.999\ldots they represent repeating nines, in 3.141592653589793238462 \ldots...
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    Agent Smith replied to the thread 0.999....
    I ask because for an irrational number like \pi = 3.14159..., I could say that if s = \text{the numerical string that is the decimal...
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    Agent Smith replied to the thread 0.999....
    No, the dots are not 0's
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    Agent Smith reacted to fresh_42's post in the thread 0.999... with Like Like.
    Not if the dots at the beginning represent zeros. Then it is simply 2013.
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    Agent Smith replied to the thread 0.999....
    Thank you. So 3.14159... is ok but 2013... and ...2013 are not! For the reason that it implies I know something that I possibly can't...
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    fresh_42 replied to the thread 0.999....
    Not if the dots at the beginning represent zeros. Then it is simply 2013.
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    Agent Smith replied to the thread 0.999....
    Because ... that would mean I know the leading digits of \infty? 🤔
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    Agent Smith reacted to blamocur's post in the thread 0.999... with Like Like.
    It's not.
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    blamocur replied to the thread 0.999....
    It's not.
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    Agent Smith replied to the thread 0.999....
    Haha. So 2013... = \infty? Gracias. Also is 2013... = \infty? Is ...2013 = \infty?
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    Agent Smith reacted to fresh_42's post in the thread 0.999... with Like Like.
    Infinity cannot be treated like a number. If you want to have a calculus that deals with infinity as a separate admissible object, then...
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    Agent Smith reacted to khansaheb's post in the thread 0.999... with Haha Haha.
    This must be that hallucination that some people are talking about.........
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    fresh_42 replied to the thread 0.999....
    Infinity cannot be treated like a number. If you want to have a calculus that deals with infinity as a separate admissible object, then...
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    khansaheb replied to the thread 0.999....
    This must be that hallucination that some people are talking about.........
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