03-12-2009, 01:07 PM
Philly Mike Wrote:9x is 9*0.999... that is supposed to equal 8.999...
in your original statement you put 9x=9
you are telling me this is not number shuffling, you posted a statement with math to show your reasoning and the math was wrong because you changed the rules of multiplication.
NO I DIDN'T, I NEVER EVER MULTIPLIED TO GET THAT... how hard is that to understand, you are looking at them as seperate statements which they are not, they are equivalent statements from one line to the next.
Also, 8.999... = 9 anyway, for the same reasons that 0.999... = 1 and 0.249999... =0.25. Which is the DEFINITON OF THE REAL NUMBER SYSTEM, like I said before you need to familiarize yourself with that before you argue about it, which you are clearly not doing.
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