Quote Originally Posted by Darkswordofchaos View Post
i wish i was still in school so i could ask my calculus teacher she would no

edit: you cant use a number that goes on for ever so for practicalitys sake you would have to eventualy stop it and that number would be diffrent than one but i suppose .999... would = 1 however i refuse to belive they are the same number
Your Calculus teacher would say yes, actually, if she were qualified to teach it. Whether or not you can use a number that is infinitely long is not the discussion here. It's about if .9... == 1, which it does. I suppose that you are willing to accept that 2/4 == 4/8 == 16/32 == 1/2, but they don't look the same, either. What's wrong with this one? There are several proofs to the situation already mentioned. It's no logical quandary.

EDIT: Man, Raist, don't ninja me.