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« on: November 11, 2009, 03:21:13 PM »
.9999999999999999999999999999... repeating equals 1. It took me a few years to understand it as a kid but then I realized the nature of infinity.

That is, 1 - .999999999 repeating equals something INFINITELY small, and something infinitely small is, quite literally, nothing.
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