Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for December 17, 2014
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Transcript:
Voice: You are number infinity in the call order. If you prefer to wait on the line, press 1. If you'd like to have a wake up call while you wait on the line, press 2.
Actually, infinity and X are not like each other. As triman said, infinity is a concept. X is a substitute for a number that is simply unknown at the present time.
speaking of numbers.Long long ago I asked my grandma “how many numbers are there?”She said"9 plus a zero. That’s all there are " I was mystified ,but she explained herself so a 5 year old could understand.I will always remember that….
Actually, numbers are concepts and abstractions too, as is “x”, in its way, truth be told. So little do mathematicians distinguish between all of these that they for instance simply call the real numbers with negative and positive infinity added on with some rules of addition and multiplication the extended real numbers.
kejohns Premium Member over 9 years ago
Infinity is not an abstact number. It’s a concept
J Short over 9 years ago
It’s a cartoon. (Someone will correct me with comic strip.)
ms-ss over 9 years ago
Actually, infinity and X are not like each other. As triman said, infinity is a concept. X is a substitute for a number that is simply unknown at the present time.
She Mc over 9 years ago
BUT your call is important to us************!!!
grossvatter over 9 years ago
throw in some elavator misak and you have every corporate business in Amerika.well done
grossvatter over 9 years ago
speaking of numbers.Long long ago I asked my grandma “how many numbers are there?”She said"9 plus a zero. That’s all there are " I was mystified ,but she explained herself so a 5 year old could understand.I will always remember that….
neverenoughgold over 9 years ago
Somewhere while “on the line”, the message of the comic was lost…
Cilliers over 9 years ago
Actually, numbers are concepts and abstractions too, as is “x”, in its way, truth be told. So little do mathematicians distinguish between all of these that they for instance simply call the real numbers with negative and positive infinity added on with some rules of addition and multiplication the extended real numbers.
gaslightguy over 9 years ago
India calling.
sunshinesdaddy over 9 years ago
It’s pretty sad when we can’t let a comic strip be a comic strip!