/sci/ - Science & Math

So think of 0.999... as a distance and 1 as the destination. No matter what you do, you can never reach that destination. Saying 0.999... = 1 means you cheated and reached out to smack your destination because its utterly right there forever. That doesn't mean you actually reached it if you stuck to the original distance.

Think another way, it is literally the exact opposite of the speed of light in that you are virtually frozen in place...moving but never reaching.