At 07:39 PM 6/2/01 -0500, michael brown wrote: >---- Original Message ----- >From: "Thomas McGahee" >To: >Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 11:19 AM >Subject: Re: [OT]: Brain Burp Rounding?? > > > > Sigh.... I did not say .99999 I said .99999 REPEATING. > > As in **forever**. > > > > Do not get confused between the VALUE of a number and its > > representation. Whether you like it or not, mathematically the mumber > > 1 exactly equals .9 repeating. hold on jack.. That's as nonsensical as saying that 2=3 for large values of 2. I have a problem with that. 0.99(followed by any finite or infinite number of nines) is by definition, not equal to 1.0 The value of 0.99(inf..) is less than 1.0 by an infinitely small (but non-zero) amount. -- Dave's Engineering Page: http://www.dvanhorn.org I would have a link to FINDU here in my signature line, but due to the inability of sysadmins at TELOCITY to differentiate a signature line from the text of an email, I am forbidden to have it. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics