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What "number" really astounds and confounds you?
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sojourner1



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

∞ of course. How is infinity possible?

Does America have ∞ amount of dollars and opportunity like how the baby boomers thought? Hell no.
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ddeubel



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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∞ of course. How is infinity possible?


Yes, an ancient paradox that seemingly governs all our being.

I"ve always been astounded not only by infinity but that we always think of infinity as GOING UP - GETTING LARGER whereas there is just as much that goes down, gets smaller.......

Whywe do, I don't know. But it is a human universal I believe.

DD
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Juregen



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sojourner1 wrote:
∞ of course. How is infinity possible?

Does America have ∞ amount of dollars and opportunity like how the baby boomers thought? Hell no.


That is why they call it an abstract number .....

it represents a number so big we cannot imagine it.

+∞ is infinitely big
-∞ is infinitely negative
1/∞ is infinitely small

how about 1/0, what is that? --> ∞
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ddeubel



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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is this week's
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