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Date Posted: 14:22:30 01/16/00 Sun
Author: Omnivich
Subject: Yes. It may be pretty cool but it isn't right.
In reply to: Mr. Phule 's message, "The FINAL anwser to the 0.999... thing. (Thrax...here's that damned proof you wanted.)" on 13:09:02 01/13/00 Thu

Ok. Yes it does work but I don't really believe it does a good job of proving that .999=1. When you subtract the X you ruin the whole thing. When you subtract X(.999 as u stated) you don't come out with 9.999. Oh darn! I forgot what i was going to say and what I just said doesn't make much sense.. I'll be back later when I think of it again to show why subtracting that X makes for a bad proof. Oh...was this it...When you subtract the X and then subtract the remaining number by another number you could come out with .999 equaling anything.
> Ok...here we go...
>
> x = 0.999.....
> 10x = 9.999.....
> 10x - x = 9.999.... - 0.999....
>
> 09.999.....
> -0.999.....
> 9.0
>
> Here, you get 9.999... minus the ".999..." leaving
> JUST THE 9
>
> So we end up with...
>
> 9x = 9
>
> x = 1
>
>
> There's the proof, if you force me to continue
> thinking about this, my brain will explode, now I'm
> gonna go watch a movie with lots of random explosions.
>
> -Mr. Phule
> "Make...the....hurting....stop...."

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