RE: [split] 0.999... equals 1
October 23, 2009 at 7:30 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2009 at 7:32 pm by Violet.)
An infinitely long number would be infinitely large. This is because it is continuously getting bigger. I am contending that it is not a constant, because infinites cannot have constant value.
Infinity is not a value... it is a concept. And it has the effect of making what it is applied to endless. When you place endlessness on a value: you make the value endless.
It applies perfectly to my point. Infinity is a concept... infinitely long, infinitely large, infinitely grave, infinitely dead, infinitely advanced... all of those are valid uses of the concept. It is an adjective... it modifies the meaning of that which it is defining.
In example, blue rock, blue sky, blue human, blue book, blue computer. The word blue modifies rock, sky, human, book, and computer. Infinity is no different. It is a concept, and not a number.
Practically, it is one. In the realm of mathematics however: it forever doesn't end. This is because numbers never end.
Infinity is not a value... it is a concept. And it has the effect of making what it is applied to endless. When you place endlessness on a value: you make the value endless.
It applies perfectly to my point. Infinity is a concept... infinitely long, infinitely large, infinitely grave, infinitely dead, infinitely advanced... all of those are valid uses of the concept. It is an adjective... it modifies the meaning of that which it is defining.
In example, blue rock, blue sky, blue human, blue book, blue computer. The word blue modifies rock, sky, human, book, and computer. Infinity is no different. It is a concept, and not a number.
Practically, it is one. In the realm of mathematics however: it forever doesn't end. This is because numbers never end.
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