> .1 repeating (binary) is the same as the infinite series:
>
> 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ...
>
> Which again, after summing an infinite number of terms, comes to
> exactly 1.

Wouldn't it come infinitely close to 1 ?

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