Re: [Mid] A lesson in Algorism

In a message dated 6/12/99 5:46:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pcr@ic.net
writes:

<< Sorry, Andrew, but you're incorrect. All that results when you multiply an
 infinite sequence by 10 is that you take the decimal point and move it one
 position to the right. The sequence is *still* infinite. >>

        Never argued that point, really. It seems that some folk have not
noticed that the number *10x* has one more digit than the number *x* and
further that that digit is *0* and effectively curtails the series of *9*s at
some arbitrary point (infinity minus one?). Tell me this is wrong! (if you
can prove it, so much the better)

                                                                                
                Andrew

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Received on Sat Jun 12 21:57:01 1999