Next release name: Tango 0.99.99 Rei?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Ary Borenszweig" <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote in message 
news:hkvc5l$1hr8$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "downs" <default_357-line at yahoo.de> wrote in message 
>> news:hkusr4$hob$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> </obscure nerd culture joke>
>>
>> Neon Genesis? (I haven't seen enough of that show to recognize any 
>> 0.99.99 in it though, or maybe I'm just guessing wrong - or overthinking 
>> it ;) )
>
> Maybe because they workers in nerv would say 0.000000000000000000000001... 
> but that's the opposite of 0.999999999999999999999999... maybe...

(Courtesy of my 8th grade math teacher):

[ identity ]
    1 == 1
[ / 3 ]
    1/3 == 0.333...
[ * 3 ]
    3/3 == 0.999...
[ simplify ]
    1 == 0.999...

Also:

1 - 0.000000000000000000000001
= 0.999999999999999999999990