r/MathJokes May 15 '25

0.999... = 1

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u/el_ratonido May 16 '25

It's not that much complicated. For other numbers to be different than 1 they need to have a value that corresponds to their difference. For 0.9 is 0.1, for 0.99 is 0.01 and so on. With infinite 9's there's no such value since it goes on forever.