Re: infinity

In article <MPG.1d6d54f48b622e6c98a0ef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tony Orlow (aeo6) <aeo6@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Nathan said:
> > Tony Orlow (aeo6) wrote:
> > > Virgil said:
> > > > How does it take forever when they are all done within the space of one
> > > > minute?
> > > >
> > > I said every moment in a unit of time, or every unit of time forever.
> > > Those are
> > > the same number of iterations.
> >
> > What the heck is "every moment"? Sounds an awful lot like Zeno's
> > paradox. However, the truth of this paradox is now understood.
> >
> >
> Every moment in that minute is like every real number in [0,1] or every point
> in a unit line segment. Zeno's Paradox is exactly like this problem; it boils
> down to infinite series.

A countable sequence of moments, which is all that is required, is not
like every point in a continuum.
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