Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
gomez wrote:
"Ace" wrote in message
news ratio, you would have to multiply infinity by 2, and that's impossible.
You're clearly not up to date with twentieth-century[1] mathematics is
you think that's the case. Of course you can double it - it's
infinite, so you can make it as much bigger as you like.

[1] Yes, it's really been that long since mathematicians have
theorised about larger and smaller values of infinity.

Slightly longer than that. At least 17th century, resulting in the
works of Newton and Leibnitz and the ancient Greeks had a philisophical
dabble, though they lacked the maths to express their ideas in a
rigorous manner,

One of the most pedantic bits of thread drift for a while. Sorry folks. ;-)

Well it was only in the 20th century that the concept of numbers
infinitely bigger than infinity, for example, was nailed down.