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Largest prime number

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 12:50

I have been thinking for a long time, yet I cannot discover wether there is a prime number that is greater than all the others. What do you think?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 14:06

Infinity exists. It's real. WTF are you idiots talking about.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 14:17

>>81

oh ya jerkoff? have you SEEN infinity before?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 14:19

>>82
I don't need proof; Yahweh has spoken to his chosen people, a glorious message of the neverending sequence.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 14:20

>>82
No, but I've never seen carbon molecules floating around in the air either.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 14:22

>>83

holy shit i just choked on my coffee

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 14:24

If infinity doesn't exist, how do you measure 'distance', if pythagoras depends on infinity?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 14:25

If infinity doesn't exist, how many times can I cut a piece of wood in half?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 14:26

If infinity doesn't exist, why do I drive one?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 14:31

If infinity doesn't exist, what is n+1?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 15:54

>>86-89
You have my undying love, /prog/.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 16:31

The world is not a matrix of discrete states. the world is a continuous infinity of points.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 16:33

if infinity doesn't exist, what is Π? what is circle?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 17:03

>>92
Π denotes product-of-series. It is not a number.

Neither is a circle. What are you on?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 17:06

if infinity doesnt exist, how many points are there on a line?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 17:21

>>94
4294967296.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 17:24

no

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 17:26

>>93
Let's assume he means pi.

What's the last number of pi, ``finitist'' faggot?

Name: VIPPER 2012-10-22 17:39

Guys, its just the shit-spammer again, dont reply.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 17:46

>>98
How do you pronounce your dumb name?

Is it viper? As in, "viper? I barely know her!"
or is it vipper as in, "Ouch! I just caught my foreskin in my zipper!"

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 17:46

^^
<..>
 WW -- faggot

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 17:48

VIPPER QUALITY

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 19:00

Saying that there is an infinite number of primes is not the same thing as saying there is no largest prime.

``There is no largest prime'' is a true statement and completely valid and provable under finitistic mathematics as defined by algebraic topology: a semi-ring representing the natural numbers. ``There are infinite number of primes'' is a false statement under rigorous finitistic mathematics (the only kind which is worth considering as realistic), although informally the word "infinite" could be interpreted as a metaphor for a non-halting recursive process that generates prime numbers.

/thread

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 19:11

>>102 never took a real analysis university mathematics class.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 19:13

>>103
Actually, I did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kcyitn0LHSM&t=11m54s

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 19:17

>>102
How do you solve integrals without infinitesimals?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 19:23

>>104
Oh look, it's that lecture again.

It's true, it would be retarded to call int ``the set of all the integers'' and = the ``pick out the integer to the right side from the infinite set''.

That doesn't mean infinity can't be treated as an useful concept in mathematics, though. You can't simply say irrational numbers are worth shit because they're not infinite after all, you can't simply say imaginary numbers are worth shit because i isn't an actual number, and you can't say negative numbers are worth shit because you can't have -2 apples.

Name: >>93 2012-10-22 19:28

>>97
I'm not a finitist and there is no last digit of pi. Stop being silly.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 19:37

>>97
The base 10 representation of pi is an approximation of it. Pi in base pi = 1.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 19:41

>>108
People do that for real. And then unit is irrational. Have a nice day.

circumference and radius are never co-rational.
the diagonal of a square and its perimeter are never co-rational.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 19:43

>>108
Define base pi.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 19:49

>>105
Infinitesimals are merely heuristics for the asymptotic boundary conditions of a non-halting recursive process (Archimedes' Method of indivisibles), which can be distilled via the transfer principle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Method_of_Mechanical_Theorems

>>106
That doesn't mean infinity can't be treated as an useful concept in mathematics, though.

It hides the complexity of thinking about non-halting recursive processes sure, and gives you a declarative syntax. But the problem is that this syntax has become so entrenched within mathematics that people believe the semantics of infinity is the same thing as the syntax, and that therefore infinity itself must exist in an absolute declarative sense.

People have confused the map for the territory.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 19:51

>>110
define express

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 20:17

>>111
This. Infinitists erronously reject the Kantian analytic-synthetic dichotomy of form and object, of syntax and semantics. They believe in the epistemological monism of infinitistic idealism, and reject the dualism of mathematics as a language for computational/mathematical realism.

Infinitists are Mathematical Marxists who live in a fantasy realm. Like an extremist cult, they indoctrinate new zealots with their Dialectic of Infinity.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 20:26

>>113
lol.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 20:30

>>111-113
Interesting. Looks like I don't know math after all.

But if you ask me, the finitists are the ones who look like an extremist cult to me.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 21:08

>>115
But if you ask me, the finitists are the ones who look like an extremist cult to me.

Christians are to infinitists as Platonic/Aristotelian philosophers and gnostics are to finitists.

Christianity had its beginnings as a cult until expanded to enslave much of Europe for centuries. But it was eventually exposed as the ideological canard that is, when reality could no longer be ignored with the advent of empiricism and logical positivism. Now Christianity is dying, with most of its not even seriously practicing it.

Like Christians, Infinitists will soon no longer be able to ignore reality as computationalism and algorithmic information theory become the dominant paradigm in the sciences.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 21:09

>>113
fuck off, cretin

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 21:09

>>116
Corrections:

*as a cult until [b]it/[b] expanded to
*with most of its adherents not even seriously practicing it.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 21:10

>>117
Kill yourself you Mathematical Marxist! Death to the Reds!

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-22 22:43

>>113
Infinitists erronously reject the Kantian analytic-synthetic dichotomy of form and object, of syntax and semantics. They believe in the epistemological monism of infinitistic idealism, and reject the dualism of mathematics as a language for computational/mathematical realism.

Damn son, you just denied the meta-circular evaluator.
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