Re: Infinities

wolfkin@ldl.net
Tue, 18 Nov 1997 00:43:41 +0000


> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:31:37 +0000
> From: Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: Infinities
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Reply-to: extropians@extropy.com

> At 08:34 PM 11/16/97 +0000, Wolfkin wrote:
>
> >it follows that the infinity of the integers is equal to half of
> >itself. Therefore the whole argument must be wrong.
>
> Of *course* the infinity of integers is equal to half itself. What *else*
> could possibly be the case?
>
> There's a century of mathematics dealing with this topic. I'm entranced to
> find people starting again from scratch. Next we could have a heated
> debate about whether parallel lines meet. :)

Um...ok. :) You doubt that they do?

Wolfkin.