From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ixn5c!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan
Newsgroups: net.math
Title: Re: 1 != .999... - (nf)
Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.1407
Posted: Fri Jan 28 15:39:27 1983
Received: Tue Feb  1 08:27:18 1983

#R:ihlpb:-27000:uiucdcs:28200008:000:312
uiucdcs!mcewan    Jan 28 12:41:00 1983

The problem is that people who think that .000...1 is a non-zero number
don't really believe in infinity! I.e., they are really thinking there
is a "largest" integer (which people call "infinity"). It may be so far
out that they can't count that high, but if you keep counting you're
eventually going to hit it.