48 replies to this topic

[Misha]

Jude asked me this a few times and I told him I thought there wasn't. I researched it and got conflicting info. Do numbers go on for infinity? Crap, I hope he's not going to be a big math guy. I'm screwed if he is!

[hoagie]

numbers go on for infinity, because "you can always add 1 to it".

[Jwheelz]

the set of real numbers is designed never to have an endpoint, there are certainly numbers too big to conceptualize, and some of them are too big to write in any kind of long form, but my understanding is that theoretically you could just keep counting up through infinity... however infinity is not actually a number but more of a concept... any number plus infinity = infinity, any number times infinity = infinity, any number minus infinity = - infinity, etc. anyone who actually really understands mathematics please correct me if I'm wrong

[scarfire]

big math guys go on to big careers, misha!

like time and space, numbers are infinite although there are some who do not believe this theory.

[hoagie]

big math guys go on to big careers, misha!

like time and space, numbers are infinite although there are some who do not believe this theory.

Time and space being infinite is debatable.

[concert andy]

Time and space being infinite is debatable.

This, numbers do not end.

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it just keeps going and going and going.

[hoagie]

This, numbers do not end.

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+ 1 = 123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,890,12,345,678,901,234,567,890,123,456,789,012,345,678,901,234,567,891

[melissaphish]

time and space are all just illusion anyway....

[August West]

time and space are all just illusion anyway....

[concert andy]

welcome to the Matrix.

[Lostsailr]

The one I save for the road! (neil taught me that)

[concert andy]

And as one of my math professors used to say, what the difference between positive and negative between friends.

[Spidergawd]

Yup. 42.

/thread

[scarfire]

wait until he learns about imaginary numbers.

they're more fun than imaginary friends!

[August West]

69? 68 and 70 just arent the same

[concert andy]

wait until he learns about imaginary numbers.

they're more fun than imaginary friends!

Ugh I hated these the first time I saw them. But really it is quite simple

i = imaginary number
i = -1
i (squared) = 1

[August West]

but what about the square root of -1?

[August West]

you know what the square root of 69 is?

[August West]

8 something

[scarfire]

8 something

that's better than an imaginary number

[August West]

imagine that!

[Tim the Beek]

Yup. 42.

/thread

Beat me to it.

[Again and Again]

time and space are all just illusion anyway....

Dreams are lies. It's the dreaming that's real.

[u.s.blues]

the set of real numbers is designed never to have an endpoint, there are certainly numbers too big to conceptualize, and some of them are too big to write in any kind of long form, but my understanding is that theoretically you could just keep counting up through infinity... however infinity is not actually a number but more of a concept... any number plus infinity = infinity, any number times infinity = infinity, any number minus infinity = - infinity, etc. anyone who actually really understands mathematics please correct me if I'm wrong

interesting...i wonder how this concept of infinity will hold up if humans live long enough to learn more about it..?

[August West]

well if you look at a graph of population versus time, you will see that it is an exponential function. we are at the turn where things start to approach infinity.

[concert andy]

but what about the square root of -1?

Had to google it, since you asked...

What is the square root of i?

There are two square roots of i: and . You can check that these are indeed square roots of i: just square each of them, and you get i.


http://www.math.toro...er/rootofi.html

[August West]

i squared = negative one

i is the square root of negative one

[Spidergawd]

[PieDoh]

if I were to roll an imaginary number how long would it take to smoke it?

[Jabadoodle]

No. Just like your imagination, it's all endless. ~

[concert andy]

if I were to roll imaginary number how long would it take to smoke it?

I got some labrador.

[August West]

had to follow him around with a baggie for 2 days

[Tabbooma]

wait until he learns about imaginary numbers.

they're more fun than imaginary friends!

[suburbanite84]

I-man?

[August West]

I-man?

he's real!
























isn't he?

[hoagie]

I got some labrador.

Uh, whats labrador?

[TEO]

8675309

[Jabadoodle]

8675309

The boardie version of Godwin's law.
Well, that and "Oh good lord."

[KrisNYG]

8675309

[August West]

Uh, whats labrador?

how old are you?

[PieDoh]

Hey man, it's dave....open up...

[little frog]

Jude asked me this a few times and I told him I thought there wasn't. I researched it and got conflicting info. Do numbers go on for infinity? Crap, I hope he's not going to be a big math guy. I'm screwed if he is!

haha .. i love you!! (((misha)))) jude's a clever little man, the questions will only get harder as he gets older.

[Mr Bo Berry]

When I signed up for the board they said there would be no math. That being said eleventy billion

[hoagie]

how old are you?

You were supposed to say something about your dog eating your stash dude. Failing

[hoagie]

haha .. i love you!! (((misha)))) jude's a clever little man, the questions will only get harder as he gets older.

aint
the only thing that will get harder...

:runs away:

[August West]

You were supposed to say something about your dog eating your stash dude. Failing

i ate it first



Daves not here!

[Gypsy Bob]

The Last #, imaginary or "real" ends in Z.

[hoagie]

Its "omega"..,

[PeaceFrog]

The last number is usually called the Encore.

but as far as math goes, numbers have neither a beginning nor an end. Whole numbers have a beginning (1), but no end.

I think 0 is the first real number, I could be wrong. If it's not zero, then it's some infinitesimally small number that is as close to zero as possible without actually being zero.

imaginary numbers such as the sqrt(-1) are on the vertical rather than horizontal axis creating a complex plane.