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On 3/29/2024 8:21 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:It is clear that olcott does not understand limits, because he is changing the meaning of the words and the symbols. Limits are not talking about what happens at the end of a sequence. It seems it has to be spelled out for him, otherwise he will not understand.olcott <polcott2@gmail.com> writes:I know (or at least knew) what limits are from my college calculus 40On 3/29/2024 7:25 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:[...]>What he either doesn't understand, or pretends not to understand, isIn other words when one gets to the end of a never ending sequence
that the notation "0.999..." does not refer either to any element of
that sequence or to the entire sequence. It refers to the *limit* of
the sequence. The limit of the sequence happens not to be an element of
the sequence, and it's exactly equal to 1.0.
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(a contradiction) thenn (then and only then) they reach 1.0.
No.
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You either don't understand, or are pretending not to understand, what
the limit of sequence is. I'm not offering to explain it to you.
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years ago. If anyone or anything in any way says that 0.999... equals
1.0 then they <are> saying what happens at the end of a never ending
sequence and this is a contradiction.
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