{"id":261,"date":"2013-03-20T00:47:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T00:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/?p=261"},"modified":"2013-03-20T00:47:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T00:47:27","slug":"on-infinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2013\/03\/20\/on-infinity\/","title":{"rendered":"On infinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, You know math, huh? Tell me something I\u2019ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?<\/p>\n<p>I can only reply, The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of infinity as if it were a number. It\u2019s not. You may as well ask, What is truth divided by beauty? I have no clue.<\/p>\n<p>I only know how to divide numbers. Infinity, truth, beauty &#8212; those are not numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Then the person says, No, I mean, what is:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/infty.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-262\" alt=\"infty\" src=\"http:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/infty.png\" width=\"243\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a>And I say, Oh.\u00a0 Um, 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; John Derbyshire, in &#8220;Prime Obsession&#8221; (addendum by Alex Boisvert)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, You know math, huh? Tell me something I\u2019ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity? I can only reply, The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/2013\/03\/20\/on-infinity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexboisvert.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}