Re: Godel Goofed? Nope.

[olcott <olcott@qwest.net>]

Okay, then give me the termination value of this loop...

while(true)
  N++;

As soon as you give me the correct termination value
of this loop (which NEVER terminates) thenn, I will
agree with you...

Simon Biber wrote:

> > 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"
>

This would be incorrect...

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