[BITList] TED Talks

[HUGH]

John,

Some interesting stuff on TED.  The problem with Cantor and infinities is that infinity isn't a number, despite attempts to describe it in terms of numbers. To define infinity as a number bigger than any number you can name is just to put it out of the reach of numbers. Since it isn't a number, it doesn't obey the rules for numbers, and strange results like the ones Cantor highlighted are to be expected. Also, while zero may be admitted as a number for convenience, and zero divided by any non-zero number is zero, any number divided by zero has no meaning.

Hugh.
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