I think a lot of people see “find me a number between 0.9999... and 1” as no more or less valid (plus, perhaps, no more or less pedantic and dickish) than “ok s

I think a lot of people see “find me a number between 0.9999... and 1” as no more or less valid (plus, perhaps, no more or less pedantic and dickish) than “ok smarty pants, why don’t you just keep adding 9s until you reach 1, then we’ll talk.”