/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.14582829]

no computer calculates with infinity so how can it be real?

[Anonymous No.14582832]

>>14582829
No computer calculates with your dick so how can it be real?

[Anonymous No.14582842]

>>14582829
The computer is made of continuous materials and is described continuous, infinite, differentiable structures and quantities. Whether machines can represent something has no bearing on whether it’s real.

[Anonymous No.14582850]

How low must your IQ be to think some machine that can't even add 0.1 and 0.2 together is the ultimate universal arbiter of truth?
This must be the scientist crowd bleeding in their laughable opinions on pure math and logic, completely embarrassing

[Anonymous No.14582862]

>>14582842
>semiconductors are described as continuous or differentiable structures.
Lol. Lmao even. Semiconductor theory is entirely dependent on the discrete nature of atoms. Infinity is occasionally invoked as an approximation but it's never representative of a physical structure.

[Anonymous No.14582866]

Then what is IEE754 Math.inf , you absolute fool?

[Anonymous No.14582869]

>float('inf')
Python can do it.

[Anonymous No.14582873]

>>14582866
>>14582869
There is only positive and negative infinity no true infinity.

[Anonymous No.14582877]

Why is infinity such a midwit filter? Everyday there's threads on this boards about failing to understand infinity.

[Anonymous No.14582914]

>>14582873
Infinity as in "∞" is a philosophical concept.
Math deals with alephs, transfinite numbers, +-∞ etc

[Anonymous No.14583009]

[Anonymous No.14583056]

How can infinity be real if our eyes ain't real?

[Anonymous No.14583090]

>>14583056
God's power is infinite :)

[Anonymous No.14583330]

>>14583090
source?

[Anonymous No.14583422]

>>14583330
Christianity, bro

[Anonymous No.14583453]

>>14583422
hearsay

[Anonymous No.14583494]

My computer does:

infinity := 1
result := infinity + infinity
print result

Output: 2

[Anonymous No.14583526]

>>14582829
>no computer calculates with infinity
Analog computers arguably do

[Anonymous No.14583687]

>>14583422

[El Arcón No.14583696]

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/extended-real-150017.pdf

Extended Real Intervals and the Topological Closure of Extended Real Relations
G. William Walster, E. R. Hansen and J. D. Pryce

[Anonymous No.14583704]

>>14582829
There is no infinity, there's only such a large number that you're better off calling it infinity than counting it

[Anonymous No.14583810]

>>14582877
What don't they understand about it?

[Anonymous No.14583841]

>>14583810
sad

https://youtu.be/IANd9Ieii1Q