Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...)

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From: Charles R. Rutledge
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:00

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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:54:36 GMT, Russ Jones
<tjj0039@unixmail.ks.boeing.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Drew Lawson wrote:
>
>> 
>> In article <5j4pis$3ka$1@nnrp01.primenet.com>, John Gentile
>> <bbobb@primenet.com> wrote:
>> 
>> >         infinity is the highest number (usually), and there is no
>> > highest number, so infinity does not exist.
>> 
>> Please seek therapy from a qualified mathematician.
>> 
>Which is the larger set of numbers: All positive integers, or all integers?
>Both are infinity, but is one set twice as large as the other?
>
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>

Sorry, Guy.  Both the set of all integers and the set of even integers
are the some size.  For every integer, you can name a corresponding
even integer (2 X the integer).  Since this is a one-to-one and onto
relationship,  the two infinities are equal.  Isn't god wonderful???

Charlie

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From: crutledge@dynal.com (Charles R. Rutledge)
Subject: Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...)
Date: 1997/04/18
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