How large is infinite? - Page 2

**mjtaylor** · #51 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by thehappysmoker

Try this:

"He washed up in his vest and pants"

In English (the language spoken in England), this means that he washed the dishes while dressed in his underwear.

Are you STILL sure that you are a native English speaker, or does it mean something completely different in the language which you speak ?

In the States it could mean he had taken off the jacket of his three piece suit to wash the dishes ... or it could mean (on both sides of the pond, I believe) that: he (his body) washed up (dead) in his vest and pants (along some shore).

MJ

thehappysmoker · #52 (**permalink**) 03-12-2008, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by cw1865

I've been to England and have no difficulty understanding them. American English and British English are 99%+ mutually intelligible....are you truly disputing my fluency?

No, of course not. I just think the different interpretations of that simple statement are funny. (wash up, vest, pants, etc.)

kgun: " This is the breakroom of "The World's Forum for eBusiness Professionals"."

So your frequent hijacking of your own threads is professional behaviour ? How about your boast that you are frequently off topic. Is that ? (It's certainly true, so that's an improvement)

You are just very bad-mannered, I don't believe that has anything to do with professionalism, and I don't know why you keep behaving that way. It certainly offends me, and I can only suspect that it's your intention.

cw1865 · #53 (**permalink**) 03-13-2008, 12:40 PM

And to solve the dilemma of which is correct, American English or British English, I respectfully submit that both countries have a strong democratic tradition and that we should just put the question to a vote....

cw1865 · #54 (**permalink**) 03-13-2008, 12:43 PM

and since the British will naturally lose the vote due to sheer numbers, we will gladly send them copies of Webster's Dictionary free of charge if they agree to impose 'accent elimination classes' on their youth.....

Tubby · #55 (**permalink**) 03-13-2008, 08:21 PM

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"He washed up in his vest and pants"
I understand that. . If it were placed in a paragraph, I would certainly have no problem understanding any meaning the author wanted to convey. No great sin committed here...

Pedants should be silenced! . . They kill more creativity, shame more budding posters simply to demonstrate a correctness that has long since been dead.

If you do not understand what the writer intended to convey. . . ASK THEM!

carolin.c22 · #56 (**permalink**) 03-19-2008, 09:36 AM

every one has his own infinite..& no one can end the otheres infinite thougths.

Tubby · #57 (**permalink**) 03-21-2008, 09:26 AM

carolin.c22 said
"every one has his own infinite "

Yes! I have no argument with that . . .

kgun · #58 (**permalink**) 03-30-2008, 01:22 PM

Now I can tell you:

Why two parallel lines intersect at infinity.
How large infinite is.

First you have to reread the above post where I say that the sphere is topologically equivalent to the plane. When you take that.

Take a ball and place it on a floor.
Stretch a thread from different points on the ball, aside from the North Pole. You will cover what you want of a 2-D plane (floor with no walls around it) except from infinity.
Then stretch the thread from the North Pole parallel to the floor.
That is where two parallel lines "intersect": at infinity.
I think Tubby that hates infinity now has a better understanding of the concept

Tubby · #59 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 08:58 AM

Kgun said
"I think Tubby that hates infinity now has a better understanding of the concept"

I say. The above quote from Kgun includes the term "Concept" I have the same view on infinity as I began with. . Kgun now uses the word "Concept" to describe infinity. I am happy with this. ( I still dislike infinity)

I seem to be a bit overworked here this month. I shall be visiting far less frequently for a fair while.

Tubby · #60 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 09:05 AM

p.s.

Kgun you are joking of course. parallel to the floor? does this thread have no weight, might it sag? might it even have to cross the odd hill or even a mountain?

I really do think a stupid answer like that demonstrates my dislike of infinity. It is simply not possible to prove something by suggesting We do something that is not possible.

"Then stretch the thread from the North Pole parallel to the floor. " Is not possible. the real world prevents it from being so!

cw1865 · #61 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 10:39 AM

You're actually the first person that I read who 'dislikes' infinity. I have to say, I'm rather neutral on it!

Tubby · #62 (**permalink**) 04-08-2008, 06:37 AM

We are all a little different cw1865. I will always dislike it (even though it has its uses)

kgun · #63 (**permalink**) 05-23-2008, 06:13 PM

Again a thread where I got a negative rep point. Btter to start a thread about the weather?

deepsand · #64 (**permalink**) 05-23-2008, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by kgun

Again a thread where I got a negative rep point. Btter to start a thread about the weather?

Probably not; no doubt someone would take great offense at your claim that is was snowing while it was sunny at their location.

I do hope that your detractors are at least more literate and better spellers than are mine. "deepsand is a discusting [sic] pig" just drips of rationality and civility, does it not?

kgun · #65 (**permalink**) 05-23-2008, 08:24 PM

What about my explanation of infinity? Did you take that? I understood it myself and when I explained that I finally understood that two paralell lines "intersect" at infinity.

To repeat the explanation.

Place a football on the floor.
Stretch ropes from different points on the ball to the floor.
As you approaches the north pole, the ropes get longer and longer.
In the North pole, the rope is paralell to the floor.
Now the entire 2D-plane is covered.
Infinity is covered in the North pole where the rope is paralell to the floor.

This Google PageRank - Introduction may have helped you in the sculpturing thread.

Now if you look at the whole web as a node tree. Then the unobservable a posteriori magnitudes, internal intrinsic and / or extrinsic PageRank may in 2008 be computed by a much more difficult hierarchical algorithme than the above articles are about.

You can divide IBL's to a site in different link bases in a hiearchy and use different weighting to the different sets / bases. Only my unqualified guessing. I have seen hiearchical Bayesian models. Not very appealing mathematics.

http://www.stat.duke.edu/~berger/papers.html

Amazon.com: Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis (Springer Series in Statistics): James O. Berger: Books

Chapter 4.6

Google:

Berger Bayesian

chandrika · #66 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 06:58 AM

How does a negative rep point show in the rep list, most are green, is a blue one a negative?

deepsand · #67 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by chandrika

How does a negative rep point show in the rep list, most are green, is a blue one a negative?

Firstly, it must be understood that one needs a certain minimum no. of accrued points in order to "pass Rep.."

Green - Positive, from one who has enough points.

Red - Negative, from one who has enough points.

Blue - Do not count, by virtue of either 1) not having enough points; or, 2) having been nullified by Administrator/Moderator. (It's not clear to me whether or not Moderators have Admin. powers in this respect.)

For details, see Reputation System Details

Martinscholes · #68 (**permalink**) 05-24-2008, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by cw1865

and since the British will naturally lose the vote due to sheer numbers, we will gladly send them copies of Webster's Dictionary free of charge if they agree to impose 'accent elimination classes' on their youth.....

What? You don't have accents or dialects in America?

And as for the question how large is infinite is is

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