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Numberphile – The Distance Between Numbers

Tom explains why the sequence 9, 99, 999, 9999, … has a limit of -1. It may seem ridiculous with our usual notion of ‘distance’ between numbers, but if we use the “2-adic metric” then everything checks out!

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