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Name: Anonymous 2011-04-05 22:27

I've been watching my terminal for an hour now. I still haven't found infinity.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-05 22:34

> +inf.0
+inf.0

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-05 22:34

Infinity isn't an integer or real number. It's an abstract concept, a different type of mathematical object. But it's useful, much of mathematics and modern technology would not exist today without the application of the idea of infinity. Don't listen to the extreme finitists on this board. They are mentally diseased.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-05 22:39

findInfinity :: [Integer] -> Integer
findInfinity [] = error "could not find infinity"
findInfinity [x] = x
findInfinity (x1:x2:xs) = if x1 == x2
  then x1  -- numbers stopped increasing, it must be infinity
  else findInfinity (x2:xs)

findInfinity [0..]

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-05 22:44

import infinity
print(infinity.max())

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-05 22:48

>>3
To complete you post, messing around with infinity might only be a good idea if you are one of the people cursed blessed with the daunting holy task of finding a better foundation for mathematics that isn't affected by the various paradoxes inflicted by infinite sets. But yes, rejecting infinity altogether would make it impossible to deal with calculus or Taylor series, for example.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-05 22:51

>>4
lolol is ur terminal dead
IT MUST BE HASKAL

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-06 1:40

#include <iostream>
#include <limits>
int main() {
    std::cout << numeric_limits<float>::infinity() << std::endl;
    return 0;
}


There you go, found infinity for ya.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-06 9:02

Here you go,

#! /usr/bin/python

print __import__("numpy").inf

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-06 9:57

>>6
If there is no infinity, then numbers must be finite. If numbers are finite, then there must be a largest or final number. What would that number be?

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-06 11:29

>>10
Infinity.

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