>>11604722Your obvious straw man is obvious and also isn't relevant.
He's pointing out that if you made of list of the numbers in [0,1) it would not terminate, so there is no last number that you can put before you put a 1 at the end.
0.999... is the number that the list would be approaching. It can also be shown easily that its approaching 1, which is why the two numbers are equal.
