From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew
Newsgroups: net.math
Title: Re: .99999... = 1
Article-I.D.: ihuxr.304
Posted: Tue Jan 25 12:15:33 1983
Received: Fri Jan 28 05:36:30 1983
Reply-To: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)

The best proof that .999... = 1 is that there are no other numbers
between .999... and 1 . Since there are an infinite number of numbers
between any two different numbers, .999... and 1 must be the same
number.

Once I actually converted a skeptic with this argument.

Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew