Sujet : Re: Does the number of nines increase?
De : ross.a.finlayson (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Ross Finlayson)
Groupes : sci.mathDate : 26. Jun 2024, 01:31:25
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On 06/25/2024 04:17 PM, FromTheRafters wrote:
WM used his keyboard to write :
Let the infinite sequence 0.999... be multiplied by 10. Does the
number of nines grow?
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No, both sequences are infinite.
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Corollary-question: Does the number of nines grow when in 0.999 the
decimal point is shifted by one or more position?
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What do you think multiplying by ten does to a continued decimal
expansion representation?
What does Simon Stevin say?
The number of nines left of the radix grows, ....
Though, one might aver it's the "count" of nines,
it's also its number.
Counting and numbering are two different things,
though they're often conflated, not to be confused.
Numbers "have" a number and "make" a count.