Timeline for Is there a name for the number of '9's in numbers such as 0.999 (where it would be 3)?
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| Jun 11 at 17:31 | comment | added | Agnius Vasiliauskas | @VincentThacker True, as well as $1.000 \ldots 1$ with infinite number of zero digits in between is also simply 1. And ? I have tried to resolve OP question about closest possible terminology, not about where infinite digit sequence leads to. It's a different question, to which OP isn't interested. | |
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| Jun 5 at 14:53 | comment | added | Sten | @VincentThacker Note that points 1 and 3 mention notation and terminology, while point 2 mentions notation only. (This question is about terminology, not notation.) | |
| Jun 5 at 11:46 | vote | accept | jcuk | ||
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Vincent Thacker Hyperon Miyase |
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| Jun 5 at 11:15 | comment | added | Vincent Thacker | @user34722 See point 2 in this post. | |
| Jun 5 at 11:07 | comment | added | user34722 | This is a question about standard terminology used in experimental physics research. I wouldn't close it. | |
| Jun 5 at 11:04 | answer | added | user34722 | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jun 5 at 10:51 | comment | added | Vincent Thacker | @AgniusVasiliauskas 0.999 with infinitely many repeating 9's is equal to 1. | |
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| Jun 5 at 10:34 | comment | added | jcuk | @AgniusVasiliauskas, I think you are right in saying that the repeating decimal description is about cases where there are infinitely many, but periodic, digits. But it is a good starting point, and I have started to click my way through various links on the page you referenced. Thanks! | |
| Jun 5 at 10:31 | comment | added | jcuk | @VincentThacker, I had hoped (and I am still hoping) that there was a term that was used in optics, so that the audience of my simulation understands without me explaining. | |
| Jun 5 at 10:30 | comment | added | jcuk | @MarkH, so it is called 'nines', at least in system availability specs. Thanks, very helpful. | |
| Jun 5 at 10:26 | comment | added | Mark H | This type of figure is used in system availability specifications. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_calculation | |
| Jun 5 at 10:24 | comment | added | Agnius Vasiliauskas | You can extrapolate this as a repeating decimal, $0.\overline{9}(3)$, although strictly speaking repeating decimal is such when it never terminates, i.e. number of $9\text{'s}$ would be infinite in this case. | |
| Jun 5 at 10:15 | comment | added | Vincent Thacker | I’m voting to close this question because it is not about physics. | |
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