Does .999999 = 1 vPOLL

[Dr.Stevil]

@Itagaki

I’m not a math major here, but its a matter of .999 being a repeating decimal.

Joe and others have given the basic formulas and logical explinations. I myself can’t even begin to formulate a reason, my head hurts too much already and this week (all 3 days of it) has been a living hell and I don’t feel like explaining myself.

Bout how bout this: if 0.333…34 is used as a decimal representative of 1/3 (instead of 0.3333~), then what would you do with 0.99999~? If you round the last decimal place up, as you should, you would end up with 1.

Like I said, my head hurts too much right now.

lol I hear ya… I was honestly wondering if anyone knew the answer I was just curious

edit: ACTUALLY… I guess, if your not using 10 (aka start from zero and up opposed to starting from one) than that totally makes sense I guess. Because .999~ would be the highest number you could hit before going back to 0 (0,1,10,ect)