On: The Webb Telescope further deepens the Hubble tension controversy in cosmology

[tsimionescu]

0.xxx... is just a notation for certain fractions (specifically, the fraction x/9). If we set x = 9, then the notation 0.9999... is just a notation for 9/9 = 1. So it's just a silly notation for 1.

[nkrisc → tsimionescu]

This actually makes the most sense to me. It’s an artifact of our chosen numerical notation system.