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Q: In base ten 1=0.999…, but what about in other bases? What about in base 1?

Physicist: Yup! The “0.999… thing” has been done before, but here’s the idea.  When we write 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, 0.9999, etc. we’re writing a sequence of numbers that gets closer and closer to 1.  Specifically, if there are N 9’s, … Continue reading

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