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    The unusual notation ...999 = -1

    The following change of topic was posted near the bottom of page eleven of another thread and I feel deserves a thread of its own. For context, the relevant posts are repeated here. I posted a link to this thread in that other thread and I'm hoping we can continue the conversation here instead...
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    A better number notation?

    In the thread discussing the 1 = 0.999... topic, many posters seem to think that the symbols 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,- and the decimal point actually are numbers. This seems wrong to me. The base-10 decimal notation, using arabic numerals, is just a clumsy way of representing numbers; roman...

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