Re: infinity

In article <MPG.1d74f120fdfc338798a139@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tony Orlow (aeo6) <aeo6@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Randy Poe said:
> >
> > Tony Orlow (aeo6) wrote:
> > > PRECISELY!!! Except you forgot one thing. There are log10(N) digits in
> > > 0.999...999 and log2(N) digits in 0.111...111.
> >
> > Eh?
> >
> > There is one digit for every natural number. The digits are
> > indexed with the natural numbers. And I thought that the number
> > of natural numbers, even in TOmatics, is N.
> >
> > - Randy
> >
> >
> The unit infinity is N.

>From the many self-contradictions of TOmaticsc, everything is true, and
false, in it.
.

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