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I do not believe that it is true, so is there a proof?

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Posted 11/07/09 - 12:50 AM:	#31
magpies wrote: I think the point hes trying to make and I agree with it... If infinity can have 3 added to it then it was not infinity in the first place. I put up a red flag when I see infinity in math because nobody really understands infinity enough to use it in math imo. Zero is also a number I don't want to see in an equation. I wonder, then, how you represent the result of an equation such as 5 - 5 = ? Some concepts are difficult to understand, and I can appreciate that some people just want to reject such concepts rather than try to understand them. The Roman number system did not use zero - perhaps you could adopt this number system if you do not wish to see zero in any equation? It was not until the 13th century that western scholars became convinced of the need for accounting for zero in maths (a clever trick that they learned from the Arabs). As for infinity - how would you answer the question "how many integers are there?"? Would you just say "lots"? And are there as many real numbers as there are integers, or are there more real numbers than integers, or more integers than real numbers? Mathematics without zero and without infinity would not be impossible, but it would be an impoverished mathematics.
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Posted 11/07/09 - 02:21 AM:	#32
Pythagoras is also another mathematician who grounded his theorems in physical reality -- Pythagorean Theorem. He also calculated cylinders and cones. (?) So, he did enclosed spaces

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Posted 11/19/09 - 12:04 PM:	#33
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awaCYtBdcBs Any fraction of infinity is infinite, yet any portion is infinitismal.
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Posted 11/20/09 - 12:58 AM:	#34
James S Saint wrote: While considering how the universe came to be, I ran into a problem in mathematics involving infinities and zeroes. I have put together a means for correcting the problem, but before I get into that, I would like to ask; I do not believe that it is true, so is there a proof that "inf * 0 = 0"? This is a culculus problem.

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Posted 11/20/09 - 02:35 AM:	#35
The concept of infinity and zero isn't so hard for me to grasp as it is for me to understand how they could ever be used in a math equation. Infinity is a bigger number then I think most people give it credit for in other words... Zero on the other hand is slightly easyer to use in math but I honestly can't think of a reason why you would use it cause 0+anything or 0*anything and such is not really saying much.

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