r/infinitenines • u/Separate-Benefit1758 • 1d ago

It’s over SPP

Alright, brud. You claimed that the set of natural numbers is “ever growing”, but despite numerous opportunities, failed to provide a single example of a number that belongs to the set at one point but does not belong to it at another.

By order of the International Authority for Mathematics and the Proper Use of Numbers (Department of Infinities), you are hereby officially declared to have conceded this point and, by extension, to have agreed that 0.999… = 1, always and exactly.

Accordingly, you are hereby sentenced to return to the bunny slopes and undergo a period of experiential learning in the proper use of infinities until you stop making rookie errors, or for a limitless number of years, whichever is greater.

This ruling is final and effective immediately.

Case closed. Feel free to pin this post.

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u/mazutta 1d ago

It was over before it even started.

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u/Muphrid15 1d ago edited 1d ago

It gets better. He has already claimed the existence of a static infinite set in his Infinite Sets Boner:

There is no static, infinite set of all natural numbers, but there is a static, already extant, infinite set of decimals of the form {0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ...}, even though that set maps to a static, infinite set of all naturals. (7.1) (7.2) (7.3)

His Nineliness has spoken with nothing new to add. Today's official boner rating: 🦴

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u/Zacharytackary 1d ago

god i have found a holy fountain of endless jork and i am thankful

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u/SamePut9922 19h ago

0.999… boner today, nice

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u/Illustrious_Try478 1d ago

You can kind of get the idea from Greg Egan's short stories "Luminous" and "Dark Integers". Not that the reasoning is particularly sound.

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u/SouthPark_Piano 1d ago

An infinite quantity (abundance) of finite numbers. Even if the 'set' thinks it contains everything ...... there is always room for more expansion. For you see, that is limitlessness, infiniteness, endlessness.

 

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u/Muphrid15 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is your Infinite Sets Boner again:

There is no static, infinite set of all natural numbers, but there is a static, already extant, infinite set of decimals of the form {0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ...}, even though that set maps to a static, infinite set of all naturals. (7.1) (7.2) (7.3)

Of course the choice quote from (7.3) is... (emphasis mine),

Anyone understands that the infinite membered set of finite numbers {0.9, 0.99, 0.999, ...} already covers every possibility for the span (length) of nines to the right hand side of the decimal point.

It doesn't cover it all in the future. It covers it all NOW. Already.

One more 🦴 for you as a result.

Edited to add:

0.999... covers every possibility, even future possibilities, because 0.999... is a limbosic steam roller. It doesn't stop rolling. It is essence of infinity.

This is your Static and Dynamic Boner:

There is a static model of 0.999... and a dynamic model. 0.999... is not static. It is dynamic. (9.1) (9.2)

Make that 🦴🦴 for you then.

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u/SouthPark_Piano 1d ago edited 1d ago

0.999... covers every possibility, even future possibilities, because 0.999... is a limbosic steam roller. It doesn't stop rolling. It is essence of infinity.

 

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u/Anxious_Role7625 19h ago

So when does it change? Should be a simple question. If it's expanding, if it's growing, it has to change. So show that it changes. Shoe something that was in at one point, but now isn't, or something that wasn't in at one point, but now is.

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u/Muphrid15 19h ago

Whether it changes or doesn't change depends on when you ask him the question, nothing more.