– why is 0.999… equal to 1?

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I know the Arithmetic proof and everything but how to explain this practically to a kid who just started understanding the numbers?

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Because it is inconsequential and internally consistent with the rest of math script.

It is an artefact of how we write math, it is not really a property of any mathematical concept itself.

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