From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 12 1:52:18 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 D0DB937B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:52:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FCBC43E4A for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 01:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 20112 invoked by uid 417); 12 Sep 2002 08:52:14 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 12 Sep 2002 08:52:14 -0000 Received: from planb ([216.194.2.204]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 02:52:12 -0600 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 04:52:13 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: Terry Lambert Cc: nwestfal@directvinternet.com, dave@jetcafe.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-Id: <20020912045213.0915f496.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <3D7FF31D.642948C9@mindspring.com> References: <20020911140623.A45696-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> <3D7FC334.396A9F12@mindspring.com> <20020911214015.51f915a0.yid@softhome.net> <3D7FF31D.642948C9@mindspring.com> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 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 On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:51:25 -0700 Terry Lambert wrote: > Joshua Lee wrote: > > > > Really? What *is* one divided by infinity? > > > Zero. > > And the converse, infinity divided by zero? ;-) > Actually, depending on who you ask, an undefined order of infinity; > the actual order depends on the inifinty you started with, and the > zero. ;^). I figured that it was a form of infinity. > > > 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-). Smart mistakes are sometimes the worst ones. ;-) > > > > 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. I'd actually welcome a new thread, this thread is getting quite boring. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message