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Nah, that's a really bad metaphor. Why are you so obsessed with this anyways?

There's many ways to take this argument, but it's a waste of time since you're trying to relate mathematical conventions to reality. At that point philosophy comes into play. What is 1 horse? If it's missing a leg does that make it .85 of a horse (or however much a leg is). If it's missing a hair is it .999999999 or however many decimal points a percentage of hair is to a horse.

As in, you say 1 can be shown to exist in nature but that's not true. What is 1 of something? Please define what 1 of something in nature is for any known thing. You have to write a proof for this.

.9999... repeating whatever is equal to 1 because it's a mathematical convention that makes sense theoretically. As soon as you bring in reality into the mix you're just unnecessarily complicating things.

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