From: Westbrick | #070
Another thing worth pointing out for all the smart people in this topic: .999 = 1 ultimately means that they're both notations for the same thing, much like 1/2 and .5. It does not mean that a series which gradually approaches some number at an infinite rate necessarily reaches that number. Many people wrongly infer that .999 = 1 serves as a solution to Zeno's paradoxes (which is equally untrue of calculus, for other reasons).
You have this inane belief that numbers "approach" or "reach" other numbers. They don't. Numbers don't move. They just are.
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