1) P4man, if you even thought for a second that this post was anything other than humor, you're even more pathetic than I've accredited you yet. I mean give me a break. How do you even remotely interpret that as even remotely serious or a statement of fact? Maybe if you showed anything even remotely resembling a sense of humor we wouldn't all think that you were a human popsicle with a giant stick shoved up your arse. Do you even know how to laugh?
2) I can't help it if you're not educated enough to know the most fundamental precept of a forum.
3) First off, that paper was probably lost in a hard drive crash years ago. Goodness knows I've seen a fair share of hard drive corruptions on my old Celeron 500 box with its inadequate power supply. (That's what I get for buying a cheap PoS.) But to be honest I can't even be sure that's what happened to it. All that I know is that I can't find it on my current PC's hard drive. Gee, like <i>that</i> never happens. That's just <i>soooo</i> much akin to 'my dog ate it'. (Which is funnier yet since I'm highly allergic to dogs and thusly would have to be suicidal to own one.)
And second, the purpose of The Infinite Middle was <i>not</i> to prove that 0.9r != 1. It was simply a mechanism for performing calculations using infinity. And thusly one of the accomplishments of it is the ability to provide an exact expression for the difference between 0.9r and 1.
And god help me for even getting back into this stupid argument, but <i>if</i> we want to get to the simple crux of 0.9 != 1, anyone who's taken any serious mathematics should know that 0.9r is approximate (but not equal to) 1. I mean you'd have to be truly uneducated or obtuse to think otherwise. Saying that 0.9r == 1 is as wrong as saying that 1/3 == 0.3r or that 1/0 == infinity. We can use these <i>approximations</i> to simplify our lives, but the moment that we start thinking of them as the real values instead of approximations, that's when we get into trouble.
So in conclusion, I'd say that I can't believe you've got this big of a bug up your bum over something as stupid as saying something in humor, but then, it is <i>you</i>. Pull that crooked stick from out of your arse and get over yourself. Seriously. Stress leads to health problems and an early death. Learn to have some fun. Crack a smile. You'll be happier <i>and</i> healthier. Who could ask for more from something so simple as a smile?
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<font color=red><i>The Devil made me do it, but I <b>liked</b> it.</i></font color=red>
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P.S. And where did you pick up such a faithful lapdog anyway? Do you pay him or something?<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by slvr_phoenix on 08/26/05 08:17 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
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