Re: infinity

Tony Orlow (aeo6) <aeo6@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jesse F. Hughes said:
>> Tony Orlow (aeo6) <aeo6@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> >> Why? Was there a last one added? If not, how did the process of
>> >> adding balls end? The process of taking them out ended the same way:
>> >> without a final step.
>> > The process ended at noon. How did the process end?
>>
>> The same way the process of putting the balls in ended. Are you
>> claiming there was a last ball added? If not, why do you ask when the
>> last ball was removed?
> because you claim there were balls in the vase, and then it became empty, and
> you are only removing 1 ball at a time, so there MUST have been a last ball
> removed.

And you are claiming that the vase started out with a finite number
of balls, and ended up with an infinite number of balls, and you are
only adding a net of 9 balls at a time, so there must have been a point
at which n+9 = oo for some finite n, right?

Exactly when does the number of balls in the vase become infinite?
For which n does n+9 = oo?

Stephen
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