Another thing worth pointing out for all the smart people in this topic: .999 = 1 ultimately means that they're both notations for the same thing, much like 1/2 and .5. It does not mean that a series which gradually approaches some number at an infinite rate necessarily reaches that number. Many people wrongly infer that .999 = 1 serves as a solution to Zeno's paradoxes (which is equally untrue of calculus, for other reasons).
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