Positive Infinity forever
    Dr. Hawkins 
    dochawk at gmail.com
       
    Fri May 13 14:30:55 EDT 2016
    
    
  
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:18 AM, [-hh] <hh at hh.on-rev.com> wrote:
The following is correct math.
>
Always a *dangerous thing to say.*
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> Let N be a finite positive number, may be real.
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> • Infinity > N
> • Infinity = Infinity + N
> • Infinity = Infinity - N
> • Infinity = N * Infinity
>
> But all of you, who play with that divine number:
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> • Infinity - Infinity
> is NOT consistently definable.
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>
Well, which infinity?  aleph-naught (A0) is the count of the
integers/wholes/natural
A1=2^A0, the count of the reals.
For that mater 2^AJ=A(J+1)
A1-A0=A1
Aj^n=Aj
A0 is also "countable"; A1 and higher are not.
Yes, I really took a course  on that, from the master himself (Halmos)
-- 
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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