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Jul 6 2009 10:17pm
Q: How many numbers are between 0 and 1?

Think about it
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Jul 6 2009 10:45pm
Counting all decimals? Infinite.

Integers? None.
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Jul 6 2009 11:14pm
Quote (Sioux @ Mon, Jul 6 2009, 10:45pm)
Counting all decimals? Infinite.

Integers? None.


How can there be an infinite amount of anything in a given finite set?

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Jul 6 2009 11:26pm
do you know what a finite set is?
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Jul 6 2009 11:29pm
Quote (jjarv @ Tue, Jul 7 2009, 12:14am)
How can there be an infinite amount of anything in a given finite set?


Between 0 and 1 there is:

.01, .001, .0001, .00001, .000001, .0000001, .00000001 and so on and so forth forever.

If its finite though, count all the numbers up and get back to me.
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Jul 7 2009 03:23am
Quote (Dr_Grignard71 @ Mon, Jul 6 2009, 10:26pm)
do you know what a finite set is?


a set that is finite?
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Jul 7 2009 08:42am
Quote (Kamikizzle @ Tue, Jul 7 2009, 07:23pm)
a set that is finite?


What about that set is finite?

Quote (jjarv @ Tue, Jul 7 2009, 03:14pm)
How can there be an infinite amount of anything in a given finite set?


he gave paramaters, not a set

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Jul 8 2009 12:17pm
Quote (Sioux @ Tue, Jul 7 2009, 04:45am)
Counting all decimals? Infinite.

Integers? None.


this
infinite amount of numbers...
everything is devisible by itself and 2. therefore everything gets smaller and smaller, ACTUALLY never reaching zero but something on the order of 1.0 E Infinity (the infinite sign if i had it)
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Jul 8 2009 02:23pm
Quote (H911ADA @ Wed, Jul 8 2009, 01:17pm)
this
infinite amount of numbers...
everything is devisible by itself and 2. therefore everything gets smaller and smaller, ACTUALLY never reaching zero but something on the order of 1.0 E Infinity (the infinite sign if i had it)


Actually not everything is evenly divisible by two. If you're looking just for numbers that can be divided, everything is divisible by everything except by zero.

Divisible usually means evenly divisible, not you divide by the number and you actually get a number.
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