Re: How to do magic with infinity

From: Randy Poe (poespam-trap_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: 25 Oct 2004 14:23:58 -0700

Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@DTO.TUDelft.NL> wrote in message news:<cliitn$9iq$1@news.tudelft.nl>...
> Both are taken from the set of all naturals. The latter
> is FINITE to begin with. And is then allowed to grow to infinity.

"Begin"?

"Grow"?

Are you saying that there are numbers which aren't natural
numbers today, but will be tomorrow?

The membership of N is fixed. If a is a natural number, it
was a natural number yesterday and it will be one tomorrow.
There is no "growth".

                - Randy

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