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Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 15:48

I've been wondering

If I start with $0, and then I earn one penny (Which makes my total fortune $0.01), am I then infinitely wealthier than I was before? 

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 15:52

Yes

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 16:13

Why?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 18:06

Only if you think money and wealth are the same thing.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 18:25

Yeah, but being rich and needing a dentist dosen't suck as bad as being poor and needing one.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 19:26

True wealth comes from happiness. And from how often you get laid.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 20:36

Didn't expect things to get philosophical, maybe money was a bad example.

I guess what I'm really asking is, strictly speaking in terms of quantity, is 1 infinitely greater than 0?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 20:53

>>7
It's 1 greater than 0.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 20:57

See my thread "One is a meaningless concept"

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-21 23:26

>>1
>>7

This ladies and gentlemen is what I liek to call the ''useless and stupid'' side of maths and philiosophy.

You can argue all you want about why 1 is infintely greater than 0 in theory, but the point it brings about is worthless. And wrong.

>>8 is correct.

/thread

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 8:39

>>10

You're an idiot. His wording was ambiguous anyway. As a percentage of his original wealth, which is more useful in most situations, he is infinitely wealthier.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 14:10

>>11
No he isn't. It's a mathematically meaningless proportion.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-22 15:24

>>1
0.01-0=0.01

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-23 1:11

>>12 has got my back.

fuck you >>11

Name: RedCream 2008-02-23 11:37

Person A has $100 and works to get another $100.

Person B has $1,000,000 and does a criminal stock trade to get another $1,000,000.

Both people experienced a 100% increase in their respective wealth.

Question:  Who is better off?

So be careful with thinking that there is anything meaningful about saying you had an infinite increase in your wealth, asschasers.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-23 11:47

>>15
Were you dropped as a child that you can't see you're asking a completely different question? The fact that the proportional increase is less pertinent in this situation does not make it irrelevant in all, or even most, situations.

Name: RedCream 2008-02-23 14:31

>>16
Saying two people have equivalent increases of 100% is about as relevant as saying you have an infinite increase of wealth from zero.  Stay focused, knobgobber.  The SUBJECT is the inapplicability of mathematical truths to all objects.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-23 15:45

>>17
I'm not sure what you're trying to say with that sentence, but I'm pretty sure that you didn't.

Name: RedCream 2008-02-23 16:33

>>18
I did.  Deal with it.

Name: RedCream 2008-02-23 16:33

>>18
I did.  Deal with it.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-23 18:18

>>19,20
Lies.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-24 0:15

Redcream's point is valid. Fuck you, everyone else.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-24 14:44

>>22
He doesn't even have one.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-25 0:39

If you have a penny, that doesn't make you infinitely wealthier.  Keep in mind, your organs, blood, etc, are all worth money.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-25 2:26

>>23

Actualy he did. If you can't keep then up don't join in.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-25 2:37

>>22
>>24
>>25

Hi Redcream!

Name: RedCream 2008-02-25 18:30

>>26
'Lo, 'Nony.  However, I haven't posted since >>19/>>20.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-25 20:19

>>26
24 isn't RedCream.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-25 21:42

>>27

Hi Redcream!

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-25 23:04

God bless this thread for serving as my monthly reminder of why I don't read /sci/.

Name: RedCream 2008-02-26 5:28

{opens raincoat to >>29}

Hurr hur hurrr!

>>30
Then that makes you infinitely better off each month, right?

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-26 12:52

No, you're one penny richer, faggot.

Name: Anonymous 2008-02-26 17:27

$0.01 =/= 1

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>>34
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Name: Anonymous 2013-04-19 2:03

You might be able to say you're infinitely times more wealthy.

0 * x = 1

I mean this is indeterminate and from my understanding there is some sort of infinity that will make this equal 1.

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Name: Prof. Deen 2013-04-20 0:53

Have you ever heard of 1+1 is equivalent to 3 or even 4??

Name: Prof. Deen 2013-04-20 0:54

Have you ever heard of 1+1 is equivalent to 3 or even 4??

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