Re: TI-M: About TI-Math

To: ti-math@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-M: About TI-Math
From: Andy Selle <aselle@ticalc.org>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 04:22:54 +0200 (MET DST)
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I do believe this is a stretch.  You can't say that just because there are
the same number of points they have the same lenght.  That assumes that
the points are the same distribution, which they aren't.  Plus you are
treating infinity as a quantity that can be compared to a finite quantity
such as distance.

But here is an interesting one.  You can count the number of rational
numbers that exist, but you can't count the irrational numbers.  There are
actually more irrational numbers :)

 
> What if there was infinite mass in space?  What if we took an average
> density of a buch of large plots of space?  I dont know.  Infinity has a
> lot of problems when it meets reality.  Another dumb example, 2 lines have
> infinite points, therefor they have the same number of points and therefor
> have equal distance so 1 foot is as long as 2 feet.

References:

TI-M: About TI-Math

From: tfobrien <tfobrien@mindspring.com>