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Yes but as soon as you get a zero in an equation you'll get an infinity and that's the end. So some branches (the superstring and twistor guys) want to get it red carded.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:26 pm
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In volumetric terms, air flows about 30 times more than water.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:28 pm
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Define size

Size is the quantity within a boundary. Infinite things have no boundary ergo size cannot be defined.

Some things in maths are undefined. 1/0 for instance - it's not infinity, it's undefined.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:28 pm
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Your body has more bacteria on/in it than you have cells making up you, so technically the bits that make you you are outnumbered by about 10:1


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:32 pm
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[i]Infinite things aren't any size at all, they're infinite. So that's a semantically invalid sentence you have there.[/i]

Nope, for instance infinite sets come in different sizes. So the infinite set of real numbers is bigger than the infinite set of integers.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:33 pm
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The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.

Go Figure!?!


 
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Size is the quantity within a boundary. Infinite things have no boundary ergo size cannot be defined.

An interesting definition of size, not one I've seen before.

google: "different sizes of infinity" (with quotes)

About 21,600 results.

For example, the set of the real numbers, R, and the set of the natural numbers, N

|R|>|N|

Even though both are infinite. They still have a "size".

EDIT: uncannily beaten to it???


 
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Wild cherries give puppies explosive diahorrea.

Hutchinson Barracudas are not up to alpine riding.

I get to watch Fabien Barel riding this weekend.


 
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Otters cry when they poo.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:49 pm
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Ah yes.. I was thinking of size as a physical property of course. Mathematics is a different kettle of fish ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 9:06 pm
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Go Figure!?!

Punctuation rocks!


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 9:12 pm
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Wild cherries give puppies explosive diahorrea.

Someone bring me some puppies and a huge bag of wild cherries, now!


 
Posted : 14/07/2011 7:52 am
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Your eyeballs are the same size when you are born as when you die , thats why babies always 'seem' to have big eyes


 
Posted : 14/07/2011 9:56 am
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Elton John's middle name is Hercules.

The widely accepted Internet 'fact' that "a duck's quack has no echo and no-one knows why" is patent nonsense.

There is no risk of explosion from using your mobile phone at a petrol station, nor problems with equipment interference on aeroplanes and in hospital. There is, however, a large risk of you slopping fuel all over the place due to inattention, or being a loud annoying prick in a quiet place, hence the restrictions.


 
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Planning a biking holiday in Orkney because it's flat and therefore not much work is not as clever it seems - it's windy as **** up there and due to some bizarre weather phenomenon, it's always a headwind, never a tailwind


 
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