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Aihuxi.102 net.math utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!ihuxi!otto Thu Mar 18 02:21:04 1982 Re: You Too Can Be A Math Genius

My favorite request in Jr. High to those who believed that .9999... and 1 were not the same was this:

If they are different numbers then there must be a non-zero difference between the two. What is that difference? Of course, any proffered difference could be easily shown to be incorrect.

George Otto Bell Labs, Indian Hill

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