Is American high school education really that bad?

Sunday, September 3, 2006

Some of the responses here made me chuckle:

What is the number less than one closest in value to one?
*I haven’t actually read the proof, but I’m not convinced by it. 0.999… is definitely smaller than 1, or it would be called 1.

I believe it is just common sense.*

Illiteracy might no longer be a problem in the developed world, but innumeracy is rampant. :-)