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   >> shit. Something has to undergo change in going from the number 1 to an   
   >> infinite number of different sized numbers added together. This is my   
   >> dick's point. If in math there's no difference between the two, then   
   >> someone must create a form of math to account for such differences.   
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   >> The equivalent situation in physics is handled by concept of entropy.   
   >> Why not in math also?..   
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   > So in my baby problem, I had added perhaps a personal touch to it also,   
   > because I did not consider 0.99... be equal to 1, and therefore the   
   > correct way of going from the first equation to the last took care to   
   > preserve 0.99...'s identity, whatever it was, which then of course would   
   > lead to again X be equal to 0.99... .   
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   > You don't have a rule for multiplying 0.99... by a number. There's no   
   > lemma, there's no algorithm for it. You just have to do your   
   > multiplication by applying the rules of addition to each one of them,   
   > whatever it is that they are.   
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   > I don't think this is bullshit, or "Cave" math. My dick makes a   
   > distinction between the end result and what leads to the end result.   
   > There is a distinction between a baby that's born and what the baby is   
   > after growing and living and getting old and dying. A whole world is in   
   > between.   
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   > There are features in 0.99... there are various sizes of numbers that   
   > are adding and the granularity of the pieces varies from one end of the   
   > series to the other infinitely small pieces. There's a little world to   
   > it :) 1 _is_ the limit, sure, but 0.99... should not be tackled like it   
   > is 1.   
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave   
      
   "Fishbowl" math, say.   
      
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