Re: tell me why?

From: Will Twentyman (wtwentyman_at_read.my.sig)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:44:43 -0400

Keckman wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:28:23 -0400, Will Twentyman
> <wtwentyman@read.my.sig> wrote:
>
>> Rationals can be constructed using other methods than infinite sums.
>> Dedikind cuts are the usual construction.

Sorry, that should have been Reals, not Rationals.

>> epsilons are not infinitely small.
>>
>
> Those epsilons are something like smallest number that is not zero.

There is no such thing. Epsilon can be 1, or 1/2, or 1/3. You choose
epsilon and from it you construct a corresponding N.

> I meaned that there is that fucking infinite inside them.
>
> Of course zero is "infinitely" small becasuse nothing is smaller in
> [0,r] if we want to give any
> rational meaning about that infinity, but...oh ***, how can you
> suppose to explainm _anything_
> if language used is so wrong as in math today and if the readers are
> monkeys?

You seem to have a poor understanding of what infinity is and is not.

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.large.numbers.html 

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Will Twentyman
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