# Does .999999 = 1    vPOLL

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**Created:** [June 20, 2006, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/does-999999-1-vpoll/13546 "2006-06-20T08:06:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/does-999999-1-vpoll/13546/102 "2006-06-21T13:56:23Z")

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here you go… any number multiplied by 1 is itself, right?

so, 1 x 1 = 1. 2 x 1 = 2. 5,837,279 x 1 = 5,837,279.

now try multiplying those numbers by .999~. can’t really do it. and even at your best approximation, the number comes back skewed in the decimal. at SOME point in the number, there will be a digit that is no longer 9. the same works with dividing by 999~.

you can’t use the argument that .999~ goes on forever and that would never happen, because unlike the math “proofs”, you can’t physically do the math and prove it.

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