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Article #78Re: A definition of an infinity, perhaps!?
From: Virgil
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:49
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 18:49
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WM <mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
> On 17 Okt., 10:57, Graham Cooper <grahamcoop...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So how do you explain {Champerno..} constant.
> >
> > 0.123456789101112131415....
> >
> > or this one
> >
> > 0.10110111011110111110111111011111110111111110....
> >
> > A small turing machine will construct this on a tape indefinitely!
>
> But it will never complete this number. That's the difference between
> potential and actual infinity. Cantorians are ready to continue after
> completing this number with omega + 1, .... They are ready to accept a
> complete infinite set without an end. But they shy away from a
> triangle with two missing ends, although the cardinalities of all
> sides follow from symmetry.
It is not missing ends(sides), but a missing end (side) and a missing
pair of vertices which prevents WM's alleged "limit triangles" from
actually having three angles and three sides, and being anything more
than uni-angles at best.
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