Re: Idle Thoughts

"Jarle Stabell" wrote

> What is meant by the expression: 1/infinity ?

An infinitesimal. Let's call it the hypothetical last element of the
infinite set [1/1,1/2,1/3,...].

Or in more practical terms, the value of x in the expression

1 - 0.999... = x

bobD





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