Quote Originally Posted by vaks
I was wondering this...
if 1/3 = .33333
2/3 = .66666666
3/3= .99999999?

actualyl... how is this not right?
Remember, it's .99999 repeating forever.

.9 is 1/10 from 1
.99 is 1/00 from 1
.999 is 1/000 from 1
.999999 is a millionth from 1
.999999999 us a billionth from1

Since this process repeats for ever and ever, out to infinity, 0.999 repeating is in fact = 1.