Aihuxi.102 net.math utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!ihuxi!otto Thu Mar 18 02:21:04 1982 Re: You Too Can Be A Math Genius My favorite request in Jr. High to those who believed that .9999... and 1 were not the same was this: If they are different numbers then there must be a non-zero difference between the two. What is that difference? Of course, any proffered difference could be easily shown to be incorrect. George Otto Bell Labs, Indian Hill ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.