Fair enough. It needs expansion. But I don't have the inclination to write an essay now. — Banno
A certain aspect of reality (quantity) is discovered all over the world
— TheMadFool
I think that's not what happens. Rather, a certain way of talking about the world is found in many places. There are, after all, languages without much by way of number. Would you say that the folk who speak them have failed to notice an aspect of reality, or would you say that they have no use for a particular process, a certain way of speaking? — Banno
Good, then you agree that the limit of the sequence is rigorously defined. — TonesInDeepFreeze
what we understand intuitively can be understood in ways inconsistent with that in mathematics — Janus
after an infinite amount of operations — Shawn
What? .999... is not a sequence. It's a number. That number is 1. — TonesInDeepFreeze
Are you trolling me? — TonesInDeepFreeze
Are you trolling me? — TonesInDeepFreeze
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