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Why is infinity afraid of zero?

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Why is infinity afraid of zero?
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RE: Why is infinity afraid of zero?
August 10, 2011 at 4:42 pm
That made no fucking sense.
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RE: Why is infinity afraid of zero?
August 11, 2011 at 3:20 am
(August 10, 2011 at 4:42 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: That made no fucking sense.

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RE: Why is infinity afraid of zero?
October 17, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Which infinity are you talking about? Aleph Zero, Aleph One ... . Also there are plenty of functions such as tan(x) which tend to positive infinity as x tends to pi/2 and then tends to 0 from negative infinity as x moves away from pi/2.
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RE: Why is infinity afraid of zero?
October 17, 2011 at 10:09 pm
(October 17, 2011 at 7:44 pm)chris Wrote: Which infinity are you talking about?

The one that is endless, numberless, and immeasurable.

I'm talking about this:
http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/infinity.html

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RE: Why is infinity afraid of zero?
October 18, 2011 at 8:54 am (This post was last modified: October 18, 2011 at 9:00 am by edk.)
There's more than one of those.

Can you count it in an infinite number of steps (countable infinity)?

The number of real numbers, for example, is incomparably larger than the number of integers, because unlike the latter it is not countable (which is to say, if you had an infinite number of fingers on which to count, you would not be able to count all of them).

The number of real transcendentals must be smaller than the number of complex trancendentals (including reals) because if you picked a truly random point on a graph, you would miss the axes with probability 1. Yet the number of both real transcendentals and complex transcendentals is "uncountable infinity".

Infinity is a complicated thing, you need to be specific.

Also, to whoever said dividing by zero gives an unknown result, it doesn't. It is not a defined operation. All we can say about the answer is that it is not a number, because any number * 0 = 0, and ( 1 / 0 ) * 0 would be 1 (if division by zero were valid).
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RE: Why is infinity afraid of zero?
October 18, 2011 at 3:05 pm
(October 17, 2011 at 10:09 pm)Rayaan Wrote:
(October 17, 2011 at 7:44 pm)chris Wrote: Which infinity are you talking about?

The one that is endless, numberless, and immeasurable.

I'm talking about this:
http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/infinity.html

That's a very simplistic definition of infinity, look up Cantor and Cantor Numbers. Edk141 has given a good summary.

All the best

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RE: Why is infinity afraid of zero?
October 22, 2011 at 1:26 am
Chris and edk141,

Thanks for explaining the other types of infinities to me. However, I am not too good at math and that's why I didn't understand the concepts that you guys were talking about. Also, the question "Why is infinity afraid of zero" was actually a joke that I made up. The answer to the question doesn't require any complicated mathematics such as knowing the different types of infinities. I already posted the answer in post # 15. But again, thanks to both of you for the input.

The infinity that I had in mind was an abstract type of infinity, but yes, there might be a specific type of infinity which I don't know of.

I could have posted this thread in the Humor section but, since this was a math joke, I thought I could post it here as as well even though this is not actually a math problem. Tongue
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RE: Why is infinity afraid of zero?
October 22, 2011 at 9:07 am
(May 4, 2011 at 1:58 pm)Rayaan Wrote: Okay, it's time that I reveal the answer. And basically this is how it goes:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, ... ∞

Therefore: Zero won to ALL the numbers to infinity.

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RE: Why is infinity afraid of zero?
October 24, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Can I just say that this is easily the worst attempt at a joke I've ever seen.
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RE: Why is infinity afraid of zero?
October 24, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Yeah, this wasn't a good one actually. But I thought it would be fun to see what answers you guys come up with.

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