Thank you abge. That is what I was thinking about, just could not word it in a logical way.

http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/reals.html

i am getting a bit tired of arguing, and in my other post people are hating on me for overly trolling. so maybe i'll cut this off prematurely, it's clear we haven't fully explored the topic.

so yes, current calculus theory assumes uncountability. but you never use undefinable numbers, you just use their existence in some kind of proof of why calculus works. but those proofs may not even be all that great given godel's incompleteness theorem. and even if you assume they are sound proofs, it doesn't affect how calculus is performed, just which first principles you have, and certain assumptions.

... turing machines counting in finite time an infinite series?
Isn't calculus about rounding off towards more integer-like quantities what is 'real' ?

hahaha, i suspect, like me, you are partially trolling. but yeah... another thing is that if you didn't round off at all, you'd still have written something down, right? and you can only have countably-infinite many things you could write down. that's another point i was making.

bolshoi this is fail-trolling. DIPLOMAT was win-trolling by creating this thread and letting the dogs at eachother. You are just an argumentative fool.

how is it fail? i pissed so many people off, which is a win. but more importantly i typically never care about math. but this gave me a reason to read-up and remember some concepts in math, hence improving my overall knowledge. the only real fail is that i had the time to waste on this forum. but that fail would exist with or without this forum.

almost true !)

Who exactly have you pissed off?

oh come on! some people sounded pissed off. i'm not going to name names though.

lol I don't know who.

I'm sure YJ doesn't give enough shits to become angry and neither do I.

Some of us may be disappointed with your comprehension skills, but other than that, this was nothing more than a distraction from my thesis.

ok fine, maybe most of you weren't. but in another thread someone told me i've pissed everyone off here and if i don't like it i should leave, etc etc. can't remember the whole rant.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ba7lFpSf5o

that's how. One's success at trolling is conversely related to the effort they put into it. You've succeeded in being obnoxious, wasting a lot of people's time (including your own), and making me hate you, but a troll you are not.

Douchebag? Yes, I'll give you that. Quite skilled at continuing an argument long past its natural time to die? Oh, yes, indeed. Afflicted with Aspergers? Undoubtedly.

But never a troll.

"but this gave me a reason to read-up and remember some concepts in math, hence improving my overall knowledge."

This was a good one.

*inversely, not conversely

abge is right though, if I ever feel actually angry at anything that happens online, that means I've already lost and it's time to quit.

I'm sure YJ doesn't give enough shits to become angry and neither do I.
"...and making me hate you"
a contradiction. Therefore the initial assumption-that abgemacht knows what he's talking about-must be false
QED

ITT: An obnoxious idiot doesn't know what a dash is.

mathematicians write proofs with dashes like that all the time.

fuck this 600 responses to 0.999.... = 1
Diplo, best troll on this site EVER.

And yet not a single +1 to his OP : )

How many posts do you people need to tell him he's wrong?

Over 9000!

ITT: THE obnoxious idiot never heard of hyphen. More stories in a few minutes.

we will never recognise the troll with +1!

btw i muted bolshoi so someone tell me what nonsense he is spewing now

gobble is gay

OP overachieved. The snowball got running because there's shit in the water and stuff here and everything gets derailed because we're too lazy to create new threads from a scratch and click whatever is on the top and just spew our mental abominations there.