How does /sci/ feel about two lines that approach each other but never touch, both the type in a plane and in other geometrys

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Anonymous Mon Jan 20 02:25:27 2020 No.11316707 [Reply] [Original]

How does /sci/ feel about two lines that approach each other but never touch, both the type in a plane and in other geometrys

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 02:27:31 2020 No.11316712 >>11316707 idk does it have any real world application?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 02:55:57 2020 No.11316755 File: 6 KB, 256x197, 2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11316707 >approach each other, but never touch Can relate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 03:20:02 2020 No.11316804 File: 82 KB, 800x800, 1568154501510.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11316707 >approach each other but never touch Feels bad man.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 03:21:36 2020 No.11316809 >>11316707 >approach each other but never touch That's an oxymoron, but infinite limits are a similar thing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 03:22:58 2020 No.11316813 File: 19 KB, 240x320, cry.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11316707 >never touch

Anonymous Mon Jan 20 03:49:13 2020 No.11316859
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>>11316712
It makes you think about the concept of infinite limits. School taught me that something was "approaching" but never touching infinity.
Me thinks people do not understand the term "approach". It infers a constant directional force to something right?
How can something have a constant directional force to something yet avoid meeting it without stopping it's approach towards it?
That definition always bugged me at school because maths geniuses seem ok with it, but linguistically orientated people like me get confused by it because it's a complete oxymoron.

By definition something cannot approach anything to the infinite limit without warping.
But at the same time, I get what they mean as an estimation of that concept. It's just poorly worded.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 18:25:57 2020 No.11318581 >>11316707 Technically not gay but you're really cutting it close

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 20 21:20:02 2020 No.11318963 >>11316707 Horizons?

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