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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Does the number of nines increase?
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 13:23:13 -0700
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On 7/4/2024 1:01 PM, FromTheRafters wrote:
> Chris M. Thomasson laid this down on his screen :
>> On 7/4/2024 9:58 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
>>> Peter Fairbrother formulated on Thursday :
>>>> On 25/06/2024 21:18, WM wrote:
>>>>> Let the infinite sequence 0.999... be multiplied by 10. Does the 
>>>>> number of nines grow?
>>>>> Corollary-question: Does the number of nines grow when in 0.999 the 
>>>>> decimal point is shifted by one or more position?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards, WM
>>>>
>>>> A more interesting question; suppose a set containing an infinite 
>>>> number of 9's. Now copy that set and add a 2.
>>>>
>>>> Is the second set bigger than the first set?
>>>>
>>>> Peter Fairbrother
>>>
>>> Lrf, pneqvanyvgl bar naq pneqvanyvgl gjb.
>>
>> Different set with an infinite number of elements. Their sizes are the 
>> same for infinity = infinity... :^)
> 
> Providing one infinite set and the other are both countable or both 
> uncountable. If one set is size Aleph_zero and the other is 2^Aleph_zero 
> then they are not the same size.

I was just thinking that infinite is infinite, there is an infinite 
number of natural numbers, there are an infinite amount of numbers 
between say, .0000001 and .00000001, all the way down. Are you referring 
to density?