Have you tried to ask them to compute the subtraction 1.000... - 0.999... and tell you what the result is?
And can they write this in decimal, if they think numbers are decimal expansions?
Am I curious to know what their answers to these two questions would be.
Martin Escardo
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2025-08-05 16:41:17 UTC
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