• cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    No, .9999… is not a limit, it’s a notation like using the infinity symbol. It is undisputedly equal to 1. Though you could represent it as a limit, that limit would also be the value of 1.

    .1111… Uses the same concept to express a real number and isn’t a limit.