From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!eisx!whuxlb!egb
Newsgroups: net.math
Title: Re: .999... != 1 - (nf)
Article-I.D.: whuxlb.966
Posted: Sat Jan 29 10:44:30 1983
Received: Wed Feb  2 02:12:35 1983

#R:ihlpb:-26600:whuxlb:7200015:000:192
whuxlb!egb    Jan 26 22:07:00 1983

Concerning
	1 = .999...
could someone please formally define the symbol
	"...".
I have never seen a mathematical definition of the ellipsis.
Is it a formally defined mathematical symbol?
	egb