Re: infinity

In article <MPG.1d7d33a73dcd383398a17b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tony Orlow (aeo6) <aeo6@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Virgil said:
> > In article <MPG.1d7555cef2406c1b98a150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > Tony Orlow (aeo6) <aeo6@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > AT noon, when n becomes infinite and 1/2^n becomes zero.
> >
> > But n never becomes infinite and 1/2^n never becomes zero, so that
> > TO is saying that noon never comes.

> No, that's what YOU are saying.

The noon that TO describes never comes since n never becomes infinite
and 1/2^n never becomes zero and
> >
> > What actually happens is that all n in N and values of 1/2^n are
> > exhausted strictly before noon, so that strictly at noon there are
> > none left.

> Which leaves you with the nonsensical result that adding nine balls
> an infinite number of times yields zero.

And leaves TO with the problem of trying to show that after every ball
has been removed, infintiely many still remain.



> > TO is still hung up on the paradoxes of Zeno's little problems, and
> > is a couple of millennia out of date on what is actually going on.

> Uh, no, you are the one who seems to think that there is no infinity
> in theis gedanken.

It is TO who still tries to misinterpret the infinite cardinality of a
set with the infinite size of some of its members.

Until he can get himself straightened out on that one, he is not liable
to get straight onmuch of anything else here.
.

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