From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihlpb!bryan
Newsgroups: net.math
Title: 1 != .999...
Article-I.D.: ihlpb.270
Posted: Tue Jan 25 13:17:26 1983
Received: Fri Jan 28 05:43:15 1983
Reply-To: bryan@ihlpb.UUCP (Bryan K. DeLaney)

I was trying to say that it is possible to add something to
.999... and come up with the number 1. No matter how far you
carry it out, it will not equal 1; since it is always possible to
get closer to something with out reaching it (1/2 1/4 1/8 1/16 etc).

If you take the infinitely smallest portion of 1 and add it to the
infinitely largest portion of 1 you will reach 1. Since .999... is
the infinitely largest portion of 1 and .000...1 is the infinitely 
smallest portion of 1 , when added together you get 1.

P.S. .000...1 may be wrong ;it shoud be 1/100...
     So the equation now reads .999... + 1/100... = 1.0