Re: Thieves Philosophy 101

[olcott <olcott@qwest.net>]

Its just that the semantics are so slippery here...

while(true)    ==   while(true)      ==    Infinity   ==    1/0
  N++;                    N += 10;

I am impying no such thing, note that these are infinite loops.



Jeff Blakeney wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001 14:34:56 -0600, olcott <olcott@qwest.net> wrote:
>
> >Or how about looking at it this way...
> >It will reach infinity, only AFTER
> >an infinite amount of time...
>
> No, that doesn't work either.  By using that process you are implying
> that infinity has a finite value which is ridiculous.  Your process
> will never finish and it will never achieve a value of infinity so
> your process does not define infinity.
>
>  Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II Unversity on A2Central.com