Re: Infinity is not that big!
From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 10/29/04
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Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:41:13 -0400
HERC777 wrote:
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> 0 is not a natural number
> 0 has no magnitude
0 is the identity element of the additive group of rational integers
(i.e. 0, positive integers and negative integers). So one cannot say 0
is nothing.
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> if infinity was a number then oo = 0
0 is a number. oo is not a number in the algebraic sense.
Bob Kolker
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