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Philosophically you are right. Mathematically you are wrong. It is indeed true that if there was an entity that could reason beyond infinity 1-0.999... would
by thdrdt 6y ago
Philosophically you are right.
Mathematically you are wrong.
It is indeed true that if there was an entity that could reason beyond infinity 1-0.999... would be greater than 0.
- saagarjha 6y agoFrom the perspective of IEEE-754, they’re pretty close ;)
- cthalupa 6y ago>It is indeed true that if there was an entity that could reason beyond infinity 1-0.999... would be greater than 0. This seems like a common thread in the comments on this article, and I don't quite understand it. Humans can reason about infinity just fine. We have a hard time picturing it, but it's overall a pretty simple concept: It never ends. So there's no such thing as being able to reason "beyond infinity", because beyond infinity doesn't exist. Its very existence is precluded by the definition of infinity.