Having a "different definition" of the reals doesn't make it correct, even if you tend to say it. I would expect that most people with a passing knowledge of b

Having a "different definition" of the reals doesn't make it correct, even if you tend to say it. I would expect that most people with a passing knowledge of basic calculus would be able to eventually understand the argument that not only does 0.999... = 1, but that the real numbers are uncountable. It might take some convincing, but the truths are provable and very well understood across the world.