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April 23 2005 at 12:53 PM
  (Login Wisdom7491)


Response to Re: You tell me clearly, unambiguously ...

 
Surely you have some definite notion in mind when you use the term "innumerable". I wish you'd tell me what it is, since "innumerable" is vague and ambiguous. If it means "denumerable", then the answer is clearly Yes. If it means "infinite", then the answer is a qualified Yes--qualified because "infinite" is ambiguous. An uncountable set is infinite, but there are not uncountably many terms in your series. If it means "too many to be counted", then the answer is still Yes--but it would be Yes if there were a billion items in the series, if counting involves my patiently running through the list and muttering to myself: "one", "two", "three", "four", etc.: my patience would run out long before I got to a billion. I think that it's perfectly good English to say that there are innumerable stars, even if there are only finitely many of them. In that sense, the answer to your question is No, since there are not finitely many terms in the series.

That's the best I can do with a word I don't understand, and which you apparently refuse to define clearly.

 
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  1. why guess? - Al on Apr 23, 5:12 PM
    1. Answer (again) - Bill on Apr 23, 6:39 PM
      1. Re: Answer (again) - Al on Apr 23, 7:09 PM
        1. This protracted discussion - Sue on Apr 24, 9:39 AM
          1. Thank you! - Bill on Apr 24, 12:41 PM
            1. You're welcome - Sue on Apr 24, 1:54 PM
        2. Another try...do pay atention! - Bill on Apr 24, 2:14 PM
          1.        explanation now grokked - Al on Apr 24, 9:49 PM
            1. "Oh, Good Grief!" (Charlie Brown) - Bill on Apr 25, 1:49 PM
              1. Re: "Oh, Good Grief!" (Charlie Brown) - Al on Apr 25, 3:40 PM
                1. Re: "Oh, Good Grief!" (Charlie Brown) - Bill on Apr 25, 8:37 PM
                  1. as everyone glazed over, Lucy pulled the ball away - Al on Apr 25, 9:08 PM
                    1. Permit me to edit slightly - Bill on Apr 26, 8:35 AM
                      1. okey doke - Al on Apr 26, 12:19 PM
        3. Conspicuous typo - Bill on Apr 24, 4:36 PM
     
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