Re: Where does infinity begin?
On Oct 18, 11:03 am, Uncle Ben <b...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Oct 13, 3:21 am, BURT <macromi...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Does it start at 1 or does it include zero?
Mitch Raemsch
Where does 45 begin? The question has no meaning.
A number does not
have a beginning.
To try to give a sensible answer to a strange
question:
"Infinity" is a word that acts in a sentence as if
it were a number,
but it is not a number -- at least a number of an
ordinary kind.
It is supposedly a number that is greater than any
number you can cite
specifically. But --
There is no such number as infinity. If you think
that is strange,
consider this: If you admit fractions as numbers,
there is no
smallest number greater than 7. How's that for
strange!
Uncle Ben
Zero is the beginning of math.
Mitch Raemsch
So either this is a troll, intentionally asking a question you knew was non-sense from the beginning or you have no idea what "math" is and don't realize that you are consistently writing nonsense. From the fact that you have made few responses here, and all those have been no-sequiturs, my bet is on the former.
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