# 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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**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/does-999999-1-vpoll/13546/103 "2006-06-21T14:10:09Z")

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> [@Itagaki](#):
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> I’m not a math major here, but its a matter of .999 being a repeating decimal.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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)

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