this doesn't make sense to me, smart people? (infinity)

[Savy]

I think what you're trying to ask is if 0.000...01 is equal to zero, and the answer is yes.

erm, that would never be written. In fact I'm pretty sure you can't do it, because it'd still be >0.

0.0000 to infinity then you add 0.0....01 and therefore it's no longer 0.

[MadMojoMonkey]

erm, that would never be written. In fact I'm pretty sure you can't do it, because it'd still be >0.

0.0000 to infinity then you add 0.0....01 and therefore it's no longer 0.

1 = 0.999...

1 - 0.999... = 0

[seven-deuce]

1 = 0.999...

1 - 0.999... = 0

Strong logic, logic is strong.

@ Daviddem only realized how dumb that was after i posted it the 0.11.. thing lol

How do you do multiple quotes in a reply like if i wanted to quote davvidem in here as well instead of writing @davvidem.?

[daviddem]

Just press (select) the multi-quote buttons to the right of the quote button in the posts you want to quote, then press the quote button in one of those same posts.

[Savy]

1 = 0.999...

1 - 0.999... = 0

After giving it some thought, this is horribly wrong.

1-0.999.... = 0

It does not equal 0.00...01

Therefore the two aren't comparable, we'll just conclude that 0.00...01 isn't something which exists.

[daviddem]

Strong logic, logic is strong.

@ Daviddem only realized how dumb that was after i posted it the 0.11.. thing lol

How do you do multiple quotes in a reply like if i wanted to quote davvidem in here as well instead of writing @davvidem.?

since 0.0000...1 equals zero, then there is zero difference

The difference is not "minute". The difference is infinitely small, which is another way of saying that there is no difference at all. It's not the same thing as a difference tending to zero.

After giving it some thought, this is horribly wrong.

1-0.999.... = 0

It does not equal 0.00...01

Therefore the two aren't comparable, we'll just conclude that 0.00...01 isn't something which exists.

See here, under "argument from arithmetic": http://www.purplemath.com/modules/howcan1.htm

I will concede that 0.0...1 is not a common or conventional way of writing zero, but if you adopt the convention that 0... represents an infinite number of zeroes, then yes, 0.0...1 equals 0. Just like 0.999...8 could also represent 1 even though nobody does it. It's just that, why bother writing that last number, since there isn't a last number... So yeah, writing it is wrong, it's pretty much an implicit contradiction. Just do:
1 - 0.999... = 1 - 1 = 0. Period.

[daviddem]

erm, that would never be written. In fact I'm pretty sure you can't do it, because it'd still be >0.

0.0000 to infinity then you add 0.0....01 and therefore it's no longer 0.

yes, because zero plus zero is zero.

As long as you agree that the symbol "0..." represents an infinite number of zeroes in succession then 0.0...01 equals 0. And also 0.0...99 is equal to zero and also 0.0...099... or 0.0...5793