Re: Calculus XOR Probability

Pray tell, what kind of a thing IS the size
of an infinite set, if not some kind of infinite number? If it's not a number,
what is it doing in mathematics? This just seems like a silly question.


Brian Chandler wrote:
See above.


Tony Orlow wrote:
So, it's just a placeholder for where you might have a number, but you don't
have a number, so it's NaN. Real great. What kind of math can you do on a Java
NaN?

Pretty much the same arithmetic operations you can do on Math.INFINITY
in Java. An arithmetic operation involving a NaN results in a NaN, and
similarly any operation involving an infinity operand results in either
an infinity or a NaN.

But you're not using Java floating-point arithmetic as a basis to
explain abstract mathematics, are you?

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