In <00fc01cc5541$5889c1c0$099d4540$@us>, on 08/07/2011
at 03:34 PM, Jim Thomas <j...@thethomasresidence.us> said:
>That said, yes, I do not remember much from my Univ. days (as I've
>said before .. I don't remember what I ate for dinner last night ...
>:-) ), but .. mathematically written (and since I do not know how to
>write scientific terms using outlook), '0.(9)' depicts a 'real'
>number, which 'is' '1'.
Indeed, Sigma n=1 to oo 9*10^{-n} is 1, but the issue is his purported
proof.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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