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1 posted on 01/12/2019 5:15:03 AM PST by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 01/12/2019 5:17:28 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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Words, words and more meaningless words.....


3 posted on 01/12/2019 5:19:03 AM PST by exinnj
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Whhhaaaaatt?


5 posted on 01/12/2019 5:19:17 AM PST by Meadow Muffin
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All right, who farted?


6 posted on 01/12/2019 5:19:22 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is what I read in the papers.)
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When math meets the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin.


7 posted on 01/12/2019 5:20:13 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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The answers are in the back of the book.


9 posted on 01/12/2019 5:26:11 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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OTOH, there are infinity-deniers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism


10 posted on 01/12/2019 5:27:42 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Like where are Hilliary’s emails? Yes, unknowable.


11 posted on 01/12/2019 5:28:23 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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It has been solved. The answer is of course, 42.


13 posted on 01/12/2019 5:32:35 AM PST by Bitman
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I would solve the problem but I am kind of busy today.


14 posted on 01/12/2019 5:34:06 AM PST by Uncle Lonny
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They showed that in any mathematical system, there are certain questions that cannot be answered. They're not really difficult — they're unknowable.

And in February, 2002, at a Department of Defense briefing, Donald Rumsfeld agreed:

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

15 posted on 01/12/2019 5:35:06 AM PST by JohnG45
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I have a proof for this, but there’s insufficient space to show it here.


16 posted on 01/12/2019 5:35:22 AM PST by Chengdu54
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OK, so let me get a question/comment in.

Infinite means — never-ending. Goes on forever. Never stops.

So, there are infinite integers and infinite real numbers, correct?

Then, since they never stop, the point is moot. There aren’t more real numbers, because of the state of infiniteness, that never ends.

I don’t see an issue. I simply accept infinite means what it means. You can’t count to infinite, either in integers or real numbers.


18 posted on 01/12/2019 5:37:58 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (I can always count on some FReeper to paint a dark cloud above the silver lining. --Moonman62)
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Has always driven me nuts that pi is an approximation.


20 posted on 01/12/2019 5:38:40 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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They didn’t ask me for help. So it probably won’t ever get solved.


22 posted on 01/12/2019 5:41:57 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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I bought a Christmas Ornament this year which says “An Engineer, Someone that has forgotten more mathematics than you will ever know.”

I actually understand what is being said. I think it was college algebra III where I learned the difference between equal and equivalent. For example, Whole numbers (0, 1, 2, …) are equivalent to the integers (…-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, …).

First time since I graduated have I used that knowledge.


24 posted on 01/12/2019 5:42:58 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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Buzz Lightyear has it solved...


25 posted on 01/12/2019 5:43:16 AM PST by laker_dad
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I thought the article was on how my computer will on occasions shut itself down. /s


37 posted on 01/12/2019 5:55:23 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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It’s impossible to compare two things that are infinite. Infinite means that you haven’t finished counting yet. When you have finished counting you can compare, but infinite means you never get to the end.


38 posted on 01/12/2019 5:55:41 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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Apparently, some infinities are larger than others. Is there infinity envy?


39 posted on 01/12/2019 5:56:27 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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