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Question of the Day!	by kickstart	2001-11-09 00:00:06
Infinite Improbability	by I_Am_Pi	2001-11-09 08:35:23
um, no	by billb914	2001-11-09 09:35:12
Read the hitchhiker's guide, uncultured swine..... (n/t)	by i_am_pi	2001-11-09 10:46:20
oink	by billb914	2001-11-09 11:11:43
and I also got the reference (n/t)	by billb914	2001-11-09 11:12:55
and again	by billb914	2001-11-09 11:19:37
For the record	by rwrannells	2001-11-09 11:37:09
I disagree	by billb914	2001-11-09 11:56:12
Infinity is a Number	by rwrannells	2001-11-09 14:00:59
Infinity is not a number	by Nea	2001-11-09 17:41:15
You can use mathematical operations on infinity because a whole mathematical sub-disipline has spent hundreds of years theorizing and proving that in certain controlled mathematical constructs infinity will behave in such and such a way. That's a lot of what calculus is about. There are many different degrees of infinity (as you mentioned) and they do not all behave the same under the same conditions. Pi, i and e are numbers (and yes they have an infinite number of digits) but they are not in the same category as infinity itself (just real world examples of an application of infinity) and can not be used to justify things about the behavior of infinity in general. Although I will agree that just because something is infinitely large does not make it only a theoretical concept. It is not however true that since some things that are real, measurable and infinite that everything that is infinite is real and measurable. And since I'm starting to ramble I'll stop now... Signed, your local burnt out math major.
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