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Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains

Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.

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tommyrot - Jan 10, 2005 7:29:58 am PST #292 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Or, by extension, ∞-∞, or even ∞/∞. If it has ∞ in it, the answer is always ∞.

It's been so long since I've studied this... but if you look at ∞ as a limit, then ∞/∞ could be a non-infinite number, depending on what the limit is. For example, the lim x²/x as x→∞ is ∞, but the lim x/x as x→∞ =1.

Come to think of it, I've only studied ∞ as a limit... Anyway, does this make sense? I mean, it matters what kind of ∞ you're talking about....

eta: I was taught (or else I just decided this) that ∞ is not to be treated as a number at all, just a limit....

eta²: There are infinitely many integers > 0, but there are infinitely many real numbers between 0 and 1. So the number of real numbers is a higher order infinity (or something) than the number of integers.

victor infante - Jan 10, 2005 7:39:40 am PST #293 of 10001

To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.

This thread could be mathier. There should be more math.

It's been so long since I've studied this... but if you look at ∞ as a limit, then ∞/∞ could be a non-infinite number, depending on what the limit is. For example, the lim x²/x as x→∞ is ∞, but the lim x/x as x→∞ =1.

I stand corrected.

-t - Jan 10, 2005 7:41:21 am PST #294 of 10001

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

It's been so long since I've studied this... but if you look at ∞ as a limit, then ∞/∞ could be a non-infinite number, depending on what the limit is. For example, the lim x²/x as x→∞ is ∞, but the lim x/x as x→∞ =1.

This is true. Usually, ∞/∞ is said to be undefined.

Come to think of it, I've only studied ∞ as a limit... Anyway, does this make sense? I mean, it matters what kind of ∞ you're talking about....

It absolutely depends. I've been assuming we are taking ∞=Aleph-null, but that's probably just me...it's a number in the sense that it's the number of elements in the set of the integers, for example.

Narrator - Jan 10, 2005 7:44:43 am PST #295 of 10001

The evil is this way?

ARRRGH!! Call out the Marines!! They're using the Weapons of Math Destruction!!!

Vonnie K - Jan 10, 2005 7:47:52 am PST #296 of 10001

Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Well, if you're me, you look at the infinite signs and go, "boobies!", which takes away the math-pain considerably.

-t - Jan 10, 2005 7:49:10 am PST #297 of 10001

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Just trying to live up to the thread title.

amych - Jan 10, 2005 8:34:11 am PST #298 of 10001

Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Well, if you're me, you look at the infinite signs and go, "boobies!", which takes away the math-pain considerably.

Because, of course, boobies/boobies = porn.

tommyrot - Jan 10, 2005 9:00:28 am PST #299 of 10001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

boobies/boobies = porn.

A bosom divided against itself cannot stand.

Astarte - Jan 10, 2005 9:01:13 am PST #300 of 10001

Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.

At least not without some serious support.

Topic!Cindy - Jan 10, 2005 9:03:47 am PST #301 of 10001

What is even happening?

A bosom divided against itself cannot stand.

Surely I am not the only one here old enough to recall the "It lifts and separates," commercials?

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