From: Adam S. <sfn...@ya...> - 2002-07-28 16:12:47
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> The fact is, if you cut the string into half a > *finite* number of times, > the length will be non-zero. While the number of > cuts increases > toward infinity, the length of the segment decreases > towards zero. > When you cut the string in half an infinite number > of times, the > lebgth of the pieces *will* be zero. Interesting > things happen when > you go from finite-but-very-large to infinite. Hmm, but if the length reaches zero, wouldn't you no longer have a piece of string to which you could assign a length? ===== <P>Adam Shephard<BR><A href="mailto:sfn...@ya...">sfn...@ya...</A></P> <P>-- Nothing exceeds like excess --</P> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com |