/sci/ - omg the lowest numberrrr

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-17 9:51

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12629077&page=1

check it out, lol

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-17 11:11

more intelligent discussion than here lol

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-17 11:28

i cried

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-17 15:23

Lol, that's /sci-worthy

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-17 17:39

I felt myself getting dumber reading that thread

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-19 10:43

the lowest number in -googol.

the smallest, however, is 0.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-19 22:05

eee

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 16:40

>>6
FAIL!!!!!!!!!!
the smallest absolute value is 0.
The smallest number is -infinity.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 16:42

correction:
-infinity isn't defined as number so there's always a smaller number you can pick. conclusion ther is no smallest number like no biggest number

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 20:19

>>6
This is how your logic is about to fail:

-google - 1 <--(OH SHI-!)

lowest number = (-infinity)+(-infinity)+(-infinity)+...

SMALLEST number is in no way a huge negative number. Negativity simply implies number in the other direction. 0 cannot be a lowest number because 0 means no value. Smallest number is more like 1/infinity, amirite?

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 20:20

>>0 cannot be a lowest number

meant cannot be the smallest

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 21:51

>>10 is extremely confused about the meanings of several words/concepts ('Google', 'googol', 'infinity', 'negativity', '0', 'value', 'amirite').

Additionally, I don't know whether 'lowest' and 'smallest' are as well-defined in mathematics as you imply they are.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 22:31

>>9

is correct fucktards. I'll tell you what I had drilled into me over and over again. INFINITY IS NOT A NUMBER. INFINITY IS NOT A NUMBER. INFINITY IS NOT A NUMBER. THERE IS NO NUMBER INFINITY. THER IS NO NUMBER NEGATIVE INFINITY. THERE IS NO NUMBER INFINITY.

NAN!NAN!NAN!NAN!

Numbers are fucking discrete not continous.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-25 23:45

In the extended real line, - infinity is definied to the lowest element with regard to ordering.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-26 0:38

HOW ABOUT INFINITY^INFINITY? OMG!!!!!11111

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Name: Anonymous 2006-03-26 3:54

Infinity is NOT a number. It's a concept.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-26 12:11

"but tehnically negative numbers don't exist, so how can anything lower that 0 even be?" SCIIIIEEEEEENNNNNCNCCCCCE!

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-27 7:01

LIM x->0 f(x)=1/x

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-27 10:12

>>17
negativity exists just as much as 0 exists.

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-27 10:33

Negativity only exists on school papers. :(

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-27 16:30

Negativity only exists within pessimistic people

Name: Anonymous 2006-03-27 18:09

FACT: Numbers don't exist. They're only theoretical.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 2:19

>>14 exactly, as written for the teenagers in Gaia
there are different groups of numbers: "natural numbers" ,"integers" ,"rationals" and "real numbers"..... none of these sets of "numbers" contain infinity or -infinity so no in this respect -infinity is not the smallest number as there is no smallest number.

but fear not... for stupid mathematicians have a cure for your disease, it's called "extended real numbers" which is basically assuming infinity and-infinity are numbers and adding them to the set of real numbers... so if you are asking "what is the smallest extended real number" (which obviously you aren't) the answer would be -infinity....

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 2:30

HAY GUYS I think they're asking what the smallest positive non-zero number is can you answer that

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 9:27

depends on font type and size

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 17:37

>>25
speaks the truth

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-03 20:56 (sage)

>>26
speaks the truth
>>27
speaks the false

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-06 5:56 (sage)

>>28 wins

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-08 22:11

Anonymous at 27 Mar 2006: 18:09

FACT: Numbers don't exist. They're only theoretical.

FACT:If, I have 3 apples do they not exist?

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-09 3:29

>>29
Your first point is actually disputed (see, for example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics) and your second point is actually a question rather than a fact.

Also you have an extra timestamp in your post which isn't even correct, unless it really took you that long to figure out what you wanted to say.

FACT: You fail

FACT: Are you an idiot?

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-09 3:56

FACT: Linking to Gaia creates worse threads than usual.

Name: Alice 2006-04-09 5:24

>>31
Amen.

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-09 6:50

x - 1 = x

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-09 14:52

>>33
I believe that was valid for all x equal to 0

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-11 22:52

>>1 is the loneliest number that you'll ever do

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-12 1:21

>>34 ?

x = 0

x-1 = x

0-1 = 0 <---wrong

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-13 3:43

42 * 5070226 = wang

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-15 4:42

>>33
>>36

-1 = 0

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-15 11:13

x = 0

x-1 = x-1

0-1 = -1

fix'd

Name: Anonymous 2006-04-15 11:19

Protip: Smallest numbar is -infinity lolz gaia online

omg the lowest numberrrr

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