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29 Jul 2024 06:18:28 EDT (-0400)
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From: Stephen
Date: 19 Jul 2013 16:56:59
Message: <51e9a81b@news.povray.org>
On 19/07/2013 8:54 PM, Nekar Xenos wrote:
> Is there any other answer

How about and we may have an infinity of authors spinning in their graves:

The sum of all the odd numbers is infinity.
The sum of all even numbers is infinity.
The sum of all numbers odd and even is infinity.

So by doing ordinary sums:
infinity + infinity = infinity
and
infinity = infinity * 2

Can't be right. And that is because infinity is not a number but an idea.

But if you make a mathematics using infinity as an object it opens a 
whole new way for mathematicians to think.

It was at this point that I thought that I would leave it for minds that 
want to see things with out drugs.

Give the book that I mentioned at the beginning of this thread "White 
Light" a try if you can find it.


-- 
Regards
     Stephen


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