It's a great tribute to retrorich at the top of the Rf.com pages. I always respected his common-sense posts and the sense of humour only a super-not-a-mod could have.
Isn't it in the daytime, but it just looks dark because of camera angle/shadow/black&white photograph or something? It just looks like two people crossing a road.
Gah! What am I being accused for? I voted guilty on pretty much everyone because I'm generally an ultra-suspicious guy. But that's what living in the shadow of the Mafia does to a Preacher........ :ninja:
I know, I don't know why I used the word 'reaches' really- I suppose I was just trying to break it down into a sum to infinity. That is, 0.1 + 0.01 + 0.001 ......... which in my mind I think of as "reaching" 1, even though that is the incorrect term.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
............. I told you......... just look at that face................
EDIT: Draka- imagine what could have happened if I hadn't locked you in the basement.... granted it would still have only been 5-4 to the Guilty side, but that...
So Flargle + 1 = McFlargle, where neither Flargle nor McFlargle are numbers [however much I wish they were........:(]
If you are using things that aren't actually concepts in maths, then you aren't doing maths.
First of all, no. Second, calling 0.0^1 an imaginary number is like calling 'infinity plus one' an imaginary number- you can't do it because it doesn't actually mathematically exist.
Square roots of negative numbers (ie what are commonly termed imaginary numbers) do exist; they are a well...
The whole point of an infinite number of something is that there is no 'after,' because whichever zero came before that 1 which you are attempting to put on the end, would be the terminating zero, thus making them not an infinite number.
EDIT: In other words I agree with Ryan and SoyLeche that...
In the realm of maths, where infinite amounts of numbers can be written, 0.9^ actually reaches 1, in the same way that a sum to infinity can be calculated.
If we could not sum to infinity, then we could not sum infinite parts, and calculus would not exist...
Correct. Everything in mathematics...
I'm here! I'm here! I've just been attempting to write a philosophy essay recently, sorry. I understand that I shouldn't have signed up if I was going to be this busy, but don't worry, mrs stemann will nag me enough to keep me playing :)
I vote GUILTY for mr emu