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Name: Anonymous 2010-03-04 13:01

There is an upper limit to numbers. Such that when yu add 1 to it you return to zero.

You may thing this is ridculous but this has far fewer paradoxes than the concept of "infinity".

Name: !!FipXnLB9Wdeq33U 2010-03-04 23:20

You're a fucking retard, OP. If you're going to make such bold claims, you need some evidence. You've got none. Elaborate or take this shit to /x/. I would recommend working in the following order.

Claim #1: Infinity is paradoxical.
this has far fewer paradoxes than the concept of "infinity".

I'm not a math major, but to my knowledge, this is false. All I've seen is people flaunting their ignorance with "x/0 = infinity" (it isn't) and using that gem to prove that 2 + 2 = 5 or whatever.

But please, enlighten me. Demonstrate or explain at least one paradox of infinity.

Claim #2:
There is an upper limit to numbers.
How did you reach this conclusion? Do you have a formal proof? What is this limit, is it calculable?

Claim #3: Numbers overflow to zero after this proposed upper limit.
>when yu add 1 to it you return to zero.

(This make me suspect you just got out of a CS101 class or something. What, did you just learn about fixed-legth registers and arithmetic overflow?)

Again, no evidence and no formal proof. Please demonstrate a known case that satisfies "x + 1 = 0; where x > 0".


Other thougts:

a) If "x" is the "upper limit to numbers", does that mean "-x" is the limit on negative numbers? Is "1/x" the limit on small numbers? What about imaginary numbers and other number systems? Do these all overflow to zero as well?

b) What is the value of "2x"? "x - 1"?

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