From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 11 18:53: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 329CD37B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:52:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5C143E6E for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:52:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0509.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.254] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17pJA4-00046a-00; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:52:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3D7FF31D.642948C9@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:51:25 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Lee Cc: nwestfal@directvinternet.com, dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <20020911140623.A45696-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> <3D7FC334.396A9F12@mindspring.com> <20020911214015.51f915a0.yid@softhome.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joshua Lee wrote: > > > Really? What *is* one divided by infinity? > > > > Zero. > > And the converse, infinity divided by zero? ;-) NaN. 8-) 8-). Actually, depending on who you ask, an undefined order of infinity; the actual order depends on the inifinty you started with, and the zero. ;^). > > No, I've demostrated that a 4th century B.C. knowledge of > > mathematics is not sufficient, nor is it "the state of the art", > > and anyone who relies on such a poor understanding of mathematics > > for their arguments is likely to be wrong in ways that they are > > incapable of understanding, until they learn more mathematics. > > And you say you're not a mathematician.... :-) I'm not. A real mathematician can easily smoke me on theory. I merely know enough not to make stupid mistakes. I make smart mistakes, instead. 8-) 8-). > > > Yeah, and the concept of one hand clapping is perfectly rational > > > to an irrationalist. So what? > > > > It's perfectly rational to the rationalist, as well. It is a > > proof of the incompleteness theorem. > > Interesting... could you elaborate? Not without starting another thread... 8=O. "Chocolate is the best flavor of ice cream. So is vanilla" -- An ice cream koan -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message