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From: Roy Gordon Culley on 14 Apr 2010 12:57
In article <hq2vi2$hat$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
John Jones <jonescardiff(a)btinternet.com> writes:
>
> Like the operating range of notes that can be played on particular
> musical instruments, numbers, too, have an operating range. Here are
> some ways in which that range is limited.
>
> 1. The number nine has a greater range than the number one. 9 goes
> further than 1 because it expresses larger numbers for the same number
> of signs. For example, 9999 uses four signs, whereas 10000 (which is one
> larger than 9999) uses five signs.

0.99999... = 1
From: John Jones on 17 Apr 2010 22:02
Roy Gordon Culley wrote:
> In article <hq2vi2$hat$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> John Jones <jonescardiff(a)btinternet.com> writes:
>> Like the operating range of notes that can be played on particular
>> musical instruments, numbers, too, have an operating range. Here are
>> some ways in which that range is limited.
>>
>> 1. The number nine has a greater range than the number one. 9 goes
>> further than 1 because it expresses larger numbers for the same number
>> of signs. For example, 9999 uses four signs, whereas 10000 (which is one
>> larger than 9999) uses five signs.
>
> 0.99999... = 1

You left out some numbers.
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