Re: Calculus XOR Probability

imaginatorium@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Tony Orlow wrote:
Matt Gutting said:
Tony Orlow wrote:
Matt Gutting said:
Tony Orlow wrote:
Matt Gutting said:
*My* question is, since you haven't actually defined oo, how can you tell
whether oo or 2/oo exist?
Because that's the LIMIT. You want to take the limit as n->oo?
Yes, or writing it out without shorthand, I want to take the limit as
n increases without bound.

Well, oo has to
exist, doesn't it?
Not necessarily.
Oh. Then the symbol doesn't necessarily mean anything. Can you take a limit as
n approaches soemthing that doesn't exist?
No, and I'm not. It's not true that "n approaches infinity"; n increases without
bound. And one can certainly take a limit as n increases without bound.
Right, but you can't say what the curve IS in the limit without considering
having REACHED the limit.

Sez you. But sez you, because you have no idea what the mathematical
definition of a limit is. Actually your entire output, a year, and 1320
posts according to google, is based on your misconception that
"infinity" is where you get to at the end of an unending operation.

Well, it seems vanishingly unlikely that you will ever make the effort
to attempt to understand the mathematical notion of a limit, so I'll
stop here.

Brian Chandler
http://imaginatorium.org


Reached the limit of your patience, have you? I know your decision
must have been a Big'un. ;-)

Matt

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