From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!wb2!houxz!houxi!houxa!houxb!houxq!kenchan
Newsgroups: net.math
Title: Re: .999... = 1.
Article-I.D.: houxq.260
Posted: Thu Jan 27 17:38:00 1983
Received: Sun Jan 30 08:08:55 1983


I presume most of you are using Dedekind Cuts or Cauchy sequences
for the definition of the real numbers. Can anyone out there prove
.99...=1. (or even give a definition of .999...) using J.H. Conway's
definition of numbers (J.H. Conway, "On Numbers and Games",
Academic Press)?

Ken Chan
American Bell, Lincroft
(houxq!kenchan)