Illuminati-R-Us

Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight

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I guess to me, 1*infinity and 2*infinity are equivalent, but more realistlly, more nonsense than anything. If infinity is not a number that you can't multiply it and get a meaningful result.

987,333 <- Half a Devil!

Okay, I follow. Thank you. I've thought a bit more about zero too. And I think I will retract what I said earlier about it being just another of the numbers, great and small, that are within infinity. In the respect of a number line that goes from the infinitely small to infinitely large it is still...

Oh, Christ! I forgot what we were doing.

But I thought you were going to prove Dragon 's conclusion? Just did - you posted while I was working on it :) Using the eleven rules, but modifying M5 to eliminate the "no divide by zero" exception, I get that every number (not just one) is equal to zero. Okay, I think I'm with you here....

g-one wrote:Guess I better get working on those heirs then.

Even if you are unsuccessful, trying is still fun.

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Everybody's dancing in the moonlight

I don't think "anybody" knows how to use "quotes" anymore. I find it quite "distressing" at times.

It's a supernatural delight

g-one wrote:Maybe I missed it as I haven't read the whole thread, but has anyone calculated the (approx.) page number this will end on?

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I recently change the posts per page from 15 to 25, so it would be 1,000,000/25-40,000. And I think we're supposed to hit it in 110 years or so, give or take.

So let's say, it would break the rules if it were a number. So your way of dealing with infinity is to say that A1 (and I assume M1 as well) only applies to the set of numbers, which does not include infinity - so you can't perform maths with infinity. I think this is a very typical approach . This...

Thinking about this some more, the trajectory I'm on works by dropping the exception in rule M5. LLance , if you don't want to do that, there might be some other ways of showing that infinity "breaks" the rules. I'll have to think about it some more. I guess I don't think that infinity br...

And when that moon is big and bright

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Do these seem like good rules for numbers to follow? If so, we can have a look at what happens if we relax the annoying exception in M5 - every number except zero has a reciprocal. We can introduce a new number called "infinity" which is the reciprocal of zero, and see what happens if we ...

I changed it back. It will stick to posts made while it was the main title but the rest should be back to normal.

But it's still true!

We get in almost every night

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Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight

Everybody was dancing in the moonlight