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That's the point I'm trying to make actually. 1/infinity is an infinite series, which would be a computation that takes infinite time to compute. Saying that 0.
by ristos 6y ago
That's the point I'm trying to make actually. 1/infinity is an infinite series, which would be a computation that takes infinite time to compute. Saying that 0.9999...=1 is saying that the infinite series is the same as that concrete value, which don't actually know and can't prove.
- qppo 6y agoI think the hiccup here is the notion that an open form expression doesn't have a closed form representation, which is not always the case. Closed forms exist for infinite series and vice versa. 1 - sum{k=1}^{\ifnty} 10^-k is one example.