Is Global Warming a Hoax?

[MadMojoMonkey]

Ah well sorry if I pissed you off that time.

No worries; if you did, I got over it.

So it's true that 1/0 doesn't equal infinity? It makes sense to me that it doesn't, but I've seen it argued otherwise.

1/x goes to 0 as x tends toward infinity.
y/0 is undefined for all y.
(Except sometimes using L'Hopital's rule)

It's ambiguous use of language to say that anything can equal infinity. Infinity is not, strictly speaking, a number. It is a concept of unendingness. There are some uses of infinity as a number, e.g. in infinite sums, and some other cases, but those are usually additionally defined or constrained infinities which a textbook glazes over in one passing phrase. Usually, that phrase involves the word convergence.

[Poopadoop]

No worries; if you did, I got over it.


1/x goes to 0 as x tends toward infinity.
y/0 is undefined for all y.
(Except sometimes using L'Hopital's rule)

It's ambiguous use of language to say that anything can equal infinity. Infinity is not, strictly speaking, a number. It is a concept of unendingness. There are some uses of infinity as a number, e.g. in infinite sums, and some other cases, but those are usually additionally defined or constrained infinities which a textbook glazes over in one passing phrase. Usually, that phrase involves the word convergence.

Pretty much what I thought and also proves Ong is talking shit. All is good in the universe.

[Poopadoop]

Ong, the good news about the problem of induction is that it shows there's a > 0 chance of you making sense at some point in the future.

[OngBonga]

Ong, the good news about the problem of induction is that it shows there's a > 0 chance of you making sense at some point in the future.

If this is true, then there's a >0 chance of me making sense now.

[Poopadoop]

If this is true, then there's a >0 chance of me making sense now.

We've already disproven that hypothesis, repeatedly.