Re: Godel Goofed? Nope.

["Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>]

This is too easy. That loop does not have a termination value.

Simon.

"olcott" <olcott@qwest.net> wrote in message
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> 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.
>