Album: The World's Most Beautiful Equations
- Kind
- Internet Article
- Date
- 29 January 2013
- Publisher
- LiveScience
- Retrieved
- Feb 14, 2013
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1 = 0.999999999…
This simple equation, which states that the quantity 0.999, followed by an infinite string of nines, is equivalent to one, is the favorite of mathematician Steven Strogatz of Cornell University. "I love how simple it is — everyone understands what it says — yet how provocative it is," Strogatz said. "Many people don't…