Is 1 = 0.999... ? Really?

Smaller and larger sets of numbers??

There are as many naturals as negatives, you’re just using an extra operator to separate the two.

There are also as many positive AND negative integers as positive or negative integers…, just depends how you explicate the operators.

But that’s not the point of this discussion.

The big question, and I still maintain that when you switch base, an entirely different psychology is needed about what counts as even, and you divide, that infinite regress kicks in, for some instances of the odd numbers in that base.

This isn’t, nor was it ever a discussion of whether rationals are ordered or not…

This is a discussion about why this method doesn’t terminate if you keep running the method of dividing integers, such that one has to take a step back, convert the decimal to a fraction that it really isn’t anymore, and then add the fractions together and magically call it an equality

You’re not making any sense. In what way do the 3’s at no point ever repeat? You mean on paper or in concept? Of course, they don’t repeat on paper–at least not infinitely–but in concept, of course they do!

I have not just learned to divide, I have understood the reason why division churns out the (rational) number that it does. Take 1 and divide it by 2. You get .5. But this is not just a rule I have learned to blindly follow. I understand that dividing one thing into two equal halves gives you some something that we represent as “0.5”. I know what a “half” is. Just as in long division, every digit you get in the decimal expansion, you can understand why you got that digit. With irrational numbers, I can understand your point (sort of)–you don’t actually know what the full number is (what series of digits the decimal expansions is represented with), but with decimal expansions that terminate or with decimal expansions that repeat (rational numbers), you can understand how each digit is derived.

Well, if we are just going to play, why not look at it from base 0.3 … or less fun; “base 1/3”.

Gib,

You’re doing the same thing Magnus was doing.

You’re saying that you understand it because there’s a process that consistently executes it, and then you take a leap, you then say, without any support, that you actually understand WHY this process sometimes causes infinite regress… !!!

Actually, and I made this finer point before, BECAUSE it is a regress issue, technically, the number is irrational!! You’re not actually repeating any of those 3’s!!!

Think of it this way!!

What does 999999999… eventually equal??

But!! Somehow, it makes perfect sense to you that 0.999999… equals 1???

99999 makes sense. 99999… somehow makes sense to you as a rational number???

It’s the same argument behind the decimal point as well.

This doesn’t converge.

But this does converge.

I had a big long post about expansion and contraction, divisors and multipliers… but really I just want to ask you this.

Let me ask you this.

Does 9 ever divide equally into 10?

If so where does it terminate ?

If not, where does it converge?

Huh? At infinity??

Where exactly is infinity??

Show it to me.

It actually makes more sense for expansions to converge than contractions…

I’m curious why you think a contraction converges, and how… are you collapsing space every time you divide? Expansions contain their prior objects, divisions don’t …

There’s a bit more to this, but I’m super-curious where you think this convergence occurs

There is no space and no time in mathematics. The concepts of ‘when’ and ‘where’ do not apply as you seem to think that they do.

Series which converge add ever smaller numbers to the total until ultimately they add nothing more. That’s the basic concept. It’s nothing mysterious or inaccessible. One can see it by preforming many calculations on a computer.

That is the fallacy in your reasoning.

There is no point where “ultimately they add nothing more”. That point, “at infinity”, is erroneous imagining.

Hmm… this is a very confused reply phyllo.

First, math is the abstraction of space and time.

One orange, half an orange…

Apparently, you’d have all us flatlanders believe that when you do math on the 5th dimension, infinite sequences terminate because there’s no more space-time, but you need space time to make the argument that there’s no space time (which means in the purest sense that the division never hits “no output”)

Even if there was no output because space time is finite… what causes it to converge?

The results are confirmed by other methods. The 0.999… =1 result can be achieved by series expansions or with straight divisions, multiplications, additions and subtractions - probably a dozen have been shown in this thread. In order to accept “your logic”, we would have to throw out the work in many fields of mathematics.

You can start another thread where you claim that series don’t converge. I’m sure that you can make it run for 50 pages or more.

It is not.

Mathematics can be used to model time and space.

Intetesting… what does mathematics model without time and space? Thoughts are discrete … what does math model without thought?

You’re confusing space and time and thoughts about space and time - reality and representations of reality.

So… you’re saying that math is just a representation of reality and not reality proper??

I have a question for this pocket of exploring these concepts…

What do you think moves faster … thought or light?

Light moves in space. Does thought move in space? From where to where?

Technically it’s a trick question… thought can make light move faster… thought can traverse all space and time much faster than light, practically speaking… you can talk to embodied beings in their state that was trillions upon trillions of light years ago
Or even what they are now… thought moves faster than anything in existence

Okey-dokey

:slight_smile: shrug. Analogies and metaphors have their limits… experience reigns supreme still. So tell me, this infinity that you hang out at where all these series converge for you… is it fun? Oh, that’s right… it’s just a metaphor! Like I said, experience reigns supreme…

Yeah, unfortunately I have to work within my limits. I have never talked to God or spirits or demons, been to heaven or hell, touched infinity, had out of body experiences, been reincarnated, been one with the universal consciousness, made a perpetual motion machine, circumvented the laws of thermodynamics …

I’m making lemonade with the lemons that I have gathered over the years.

Well… sounds to me like you’re off to a good start.

When these things do occur, try not to go insane like I did!

I’ll tell you something very important to keep with you…

The question of whether there is a grand creator, is actually yours to decide. There isn’t a wrong answer.
That’s how big this cosmos actually is