Re: Tropical Storm Emily

In article <dc4c21$86l$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Tim McDaniel <tmcd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Keith F. Lynch <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I've vowed not to take my book collecting to extremes; I strictly
>>> limit myself to a finite number of books.
>
>> You could expand just a bit: have books that you can count, so you
>> can assign a unique natural number to each book. Since you can
>> enumerate each book, it's not actually that much bigger a limit --
>> it's *practically* finite, right?
>
>Just For Today, I've decided to acquire a finite number of books.

Suppose you purchase a book. It takes some time to purchase a book,
so divide the time in half. Continue dividing and (in the limit) at
any point in time, you are making no progress in buying a book.
Therefore, you can never get a new book. The easiest way to resolve
this is simply to buy an infinite number of books in a finite time.

--
Tim McDaniel, tmcd@xxxxxxxxx
.

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