22-10-2008, 11:57 AM | #11 | ||
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Let us try another way.
The conclusion is that the biggest number is 1
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22-10-2008, 12:35 PM | #12 | ||
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I'm going to go with pi.
3.14159 ad infinitum
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22-10-2008, 12:55 PM | #13 | ||
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I remember watching some show years ago that tried to explain that mathematically speaking, a traveling object could never reach its destination, but could come infinitely close. The equation you're using is basically the outcome. Totally illogical to me, but maybe you're right in that sense, and 1 really is the biggest number.
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22-10-2008, 01:00 PM | #14 | ||
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3 :P
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That's not really the way it works, infinity is neither a real nor a definite number.
By the way the total numbers of atoms in the whole universe has been estimated at around 1e80, so chances are that you won't need one bigger. :P Quote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_series
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I was a kid back then, so can't remember details. I just remember that they tried to explain mathematically that a ball thrown from a pitcher would never actually reach the catcher, because for each instance of time, the ball would only travel half as far as the previous time. I don't know how that's logical, or what the heck it has to do with baseball. It's confounded me to this day. :embarassed: |
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22-10-2008, 07:56 PM | #17 | ||
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These kind of paradoxes were formulated by charlatan Zeno on the Vth century BC. The one I heard first was "Achilles and the tortoise":
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1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... = 1 Even though there are infinite addends, they add up a finite amount.
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22-10-2008, 09:30 PM | #18 | ||
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Today I put 10 000! into my calculator which broke it... However, 2000! worked fine:nuts:
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23-10-2008, 11:53 AM | #20 | ||
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well, it's a set, which has infinite ammount of numbers, so..
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