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Thom_Fuleri
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02 Feb 2013, 6:39 am

ruveyn wrote:
Straight from Euclid:
Σημεῖόν ἐστιν, οὗ μέρος οὐθέν.


Google Translate wrote:
Point is he, th part outhen.


I think I need a better translation.



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02 Feb 2013, 8:37 am

Thom_Fuleri wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
Straight from Euclid:
Σημεῖόν ἐστιν, οὗ μέρος οὐθέν.


Google Translate wrote:
Point is he, th part outhen.


I think I need a better translation.


It is Attic Greek, what they spoke in Athens and Alexandria.

A point is that which has no parts.

The Google Greek to English translator does a very bad job with ancient Greek

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07 Feb 2013, 4:02 pm

ianorlin wrote:
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0 divided by 0


nothing trumps infinity,
because nothing does not exist.

nothing's not something,
and something's not nothing,

there's no cosmological tryst,
twixt what is not and what is.


obviously infinity is not quantifiable (because it is larger than any brain that could inspect it fully), and zero is likewise unquantifiable (because it does not exist).


But the empty set is a subset of nothing because it is a subset of everything.


Let's say we had e that represented everything and we had ~e as well. If we had both e and ~e we would have nothing.