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>>4279839
Look my pic
They use it for the demonstration of calculation of infinite series
It's basically 1/inf = 0, so if you use the formula to prove 0.999... = 1, it's circular thinking. 0.999... != 1 for the same reason 1/inf != 0, because an infinitely small number exists. If such a number didn't exist, then it would be impossible to throw a coin on an infinite plane, because the probability would be 0 everywhere instead of infinitely small. Checkmate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_progression#Geometric_series