This little guy craves the light of knowledge and wants to know why 0.999… = 1. He wants rigour, but he does accept proofs starting with any sort of premise.

Enlighten him.

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A real number can’t be approaching anything. It is not a function or any other sort of object that can be said to be approaching anything.

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