Re: An infinite debate

Tony Orlow wrote:
Um, what if you start with 0, increment it at 1 minute before noon, then
again at a half minute before noon, then again at a third of a minute
before noon, etc, so that at time noon-1/n the number achieves a value
of n, for n in N? That way we have counted through all of the natural
numbers by noon, correct? What is the value of n at noon?

:)

An infinite number of balls, uh, finite naturals in the vase?

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