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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That’s not an axiom or definition, it’s a consequence of the axioms that define arithmetic and can therefore be proven.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There are versions of math where that isn't true, with infinitesimals that are not equal to zero. So I think it is an axium rather than a provable conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's not what "axiom" means

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Those versions have different axioms from which different things can be proven, but we don't define 9.9 repeating as 1