Aihuxi.102 net.math utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!ihuxi!otto Thu Mar 18 02:21:04 1982 Re: You Too Can Be A Math Genius My favorite request in Jr. High to those who believed that .9999... and 1 were not the same was this: If they are different numbers then there must be a non-zero difference between the two. What is that difference? Of course, any proffered difference could be easily shown to be incorrect. George Otto Bell Labs, Indian Hill