From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!eagle!wb2!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan Newsgroups: net.math Title: Re: = .999... neato proof - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1406 Posted: Fri Jan 28 15:39:08 1983 Received: Mon Jan 31 19:04:38 1983 #R:uiucdcs:28200006:uiucdcs:28200007:000:120 uiucdcs!mcewan Jan 28 12:36:00 1983 Actually, 1-.999... = 10^-infinity. If you can't convince your roommate that 10^-infinity=0, I'd give up if I were you.