----- Original Message ----- From: "David VanHorn" To: Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 12:58 AM Subject: Re: [OT]: Brain Burp Rounding?? > At 12:18 AM 6/3/01 -0400, Bob Ammerman wrote: > >Dave, > > > >The point is that it does _not_ take patience. > > > >.9 repeating is already an _infinite_ series. Not just a "sorta infinite as > >long as you want to go on" series. > > At each point, it evaluates to <1. Repeating it in smaller steps forever > doesn't change that. > Show me the point at which it changes, and evaluates to 1. It doesn't change at any given step, yet, _after_ infinite steps (if one can comprehend that), in the _limit_ that is its value. > I know, it's infinitely far away, and it can never be reached, but if you > wish real hard... > >Its value is exactly 1. Show me where infinity is and I'll show you the 'point' you are looking for. > > Can you show any physical thing that requires this to be true? > Obviously not, physical reality is limited by Heisenburg, quantum effects, etc. > > -- > Dave's Engineering Page: http://www.dvanhorn.org Bob Ammerman RAm Systems (contract development of high performance, high function, low-level software) -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.