Humour - page 86

 

No!... 0 / 0 = 1

Every schoolboy knows that. Any number divided by itself results in one.

 
Zhunko:

No!... 0 / 0 = 1 Every schoolboy knows that. Any number divided by itself results in one.

What happens if infinity is multiplied by infinity?
 
DmitriyN:
What happens if infinity is multiplied by infinity?
There would be an infinite number of infinities.
 
Zhunko:
There will be an infinite number of infinities.
It turns out that there is something more than infinity.
 

This one made me laugh more :)

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DmitriyN:
It turns out that there is something more than infinity.
Dig around the subject of 'power of sets'. And the answer is infinity.
 
alexeymosc:
Dig into the subject of 'power of sets'. And the answer is infinity.
Okay. (chuckles)
 
alexeymosc:
Dig into the subject of 'power of sets'. The answer is infinity.
Power is a measure of which infinity is more infinite.
 
jartmailru:
Power is a measure of which infinity is more infinite.


This is nonsense. Infinity always means the absence of a limit. You can't be absent for a little while. The limit is either there or it is not. Just as it is impossible to be a little bit pregnant. To say that one infinity can be more infinite than another is like saying that in one case the limit is partially present. And this is no longer infinity, for again: By infinity is understood the absence of limit. As soon as it at least partially appears as, say, a piece of barrier, at once infinity stops being infinity and becomes finite :) (pardon the pun).

P.S.

For our understanding, the simplest model of infinity is a ring. If the question is posed as to the maximum distance a point can travel through a ring, the answer is infinitely long distance. And it cannot be greater than another infinitely long distance because if it were, it would mean that the ring is broken at some point in time and no further movement is possible. So the breaking of the ring means that the formulation of the problem has changed. That it is a different problem.

 

No, it's not nonsense, it's probably you've been actively skipping maths.

Anecdote:

- What's a do-gooder? How much is it?

- You see a railway, go count the sleepers, as in "what the hell is it", it's twice as much.

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There's an infinite number of rabbits. How many pairs of rabbits will there be? There will be twice as many, but also an infinite number. Let each pair have offspring of four rabbits. How many rabbits? - An infinite number, but twice as many as the parents. And by the way, there are problems like this in maths textbooks.