3 ms·Can we just represent 1 here as 0.999...?by freyr 6y agoCan we just represent 1 here as 0.999...?DavidSJ 6y agoThere are many ways to represent 1, but it’s still 1.deleted 6y ago[deleted]freyr 6y agoIt’s 1, but is it a mantissa? The linked Wikipedia article just says that the mantissa is “the fractional part.”DavidSJ 6y agoThe fractional part of x is what you have left after you subtract the largest integer k ≤ x. Hence the fractional part is always less than 1. Since 0.999... = 1, it is not less than 1, so cannot be the fractional part of any number.freyr 6y agoMakes sense, thanks.