On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 at 13:49:45 in message
, Blanche
wrote:
Jose wrote:
Of course infinity cannot be treated as an ordinary number but it still
'exists' and you can compute larger and larger numbers as long as you
like.

Infinity is not a number. Because of this, when you get infinity as an

Actually, in the world of digital computers, infinity *is* a finite
number.

No, it just needs a computer memory of infinite size to display it and I
guess an infinite time to move the bits into this very large register.

(*evil laugh*)

(*Hysterical laugh*)
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David CL Francis