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Article #6421Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...)
From: Greg d. Moore
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 00:00
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Tosser wrote: > > Charles R. Rutledge wrote: > > > 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 > > In another response to this thread, I wrote: > > "It has something to do with both of them being "countably infinite", > since you can make direct correspondences between members of each set, > i.e. 1 with 1 AND -1, 2 with 2 AND -2,...ad infinitum." > > OKAY, MATH GEEKS: Who's right, (if anyone) and why? > You both are. Fundamentally you're doing the same thing, but in a different way. You're describing all integers (negative and positive) he's dealling with integers and even integers. Not a big difference. All of them are equally infinite. Now the question is, there is as I understand it, at least a 3rd order of Infinity. Does anyone know what it is? > T -- Greg D. Moore President mooregr@greenms.com Green Mountain Software http://www.greenms.com/ 518-273-8602
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102cdf,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid102cdf,public X-Google-Thread: 10aec3,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10aec3,public X-Google-Thread: 10f3ae,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f3ae,public X-Google-Thread: 10a148,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a148,public X-Google-Thread: f5d40,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d40,public X-Google-Thread: ffd1b,685ba1a60412cd32 X-Google-Attributes: gidffd1b,public From: "Greg d. Moore" <mooregr@greenms.com> Subject: Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...) Date: 1997/04/19 Message-ID: <335855A8.4F44@greenms.com> X-Deja-AN: 235894974 References: <858944975.21700@dejanews.com> <E7pGE8.21v@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> <hatunenE7pK18.n1L@netcom.com> <5he5lg$hs8@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <5heubn$r3v@gap.cco.caltech.edu> <5hhq2q$fr1@usenet.rpi.edu> <5j4pis$3ka$1@nnrp01.primenet.com> <dlawson-1804970653040001@news2.aimnet.com> <Pine.HPP.3.91.970418125337.19713E-100000@pwic045.ks.boeing.com> <3357c9a5.21070675@news.hiwaay.net> <3357E0FA.17C@nyet.nein> Organization: Green Mountain Software Reply-To: mooregr@greenms.com Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,alt.conspiracy,alt.folklore.science,hsv.general,alt.folklore.urban,rec.models.rockets