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Re: Godel Goofed? Nope.



> Well I guess that I was less than sufficiently precise here...
> When the |Denominator| becomes smallest, the value becomes
> largest... So large in fact that it is no longer even a number...

Even if you keep adding to a number, even if you keep squaring a number, and
any other increasing operation, the value can never be "no longer even a
number"... all sets of numbers including counting, integer, rational and
real go on FOREVER.

Infinity is a concept. It has a precise mathematical description: "An
unbounded number greater than every Real Number"

Any process such as you have described cannot ever cease to be a real
number, so cannot ever reach "infinity".

Simon.