Re: [Mid] Math bashing

On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Charles J. Cohen wrote:

}>Something I've wondered about...can't 0 be treated as a shorthand symbol for
}>the infinitely small, just as "infinity" is a shorthand symbol for the
}>infinitely large?
}
}A neat idea! But no, I don't think so, because zero is really a
}number, an integer, and thus has a (finite and specific) value.
}Infinity doesn't.

Well let me ask you this--can yo uconstruct a statement that is true f 0 but
not true of an infinitely small number?

Fairfax

From: Alan Terlep <atterlep@oakland.edu>
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