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April 12, 2013 1:17 am at 1:17 am #608958Torah613TorahParticipant
And I will answer it, but only during odd-numbered hours and minutes.
So I will answer questions on this thread from 1:00-1:59, 3:00-3:59, 5:00-5:59, and right now it’s 9:15, so you have until 9:59, at which point you will need to wait for 11:00.
Now you may complain that 00 is even! But I choose to be annoying and treat it as 0 even though it isn’t. And 0 is neither even nor odd, at least I choose to hold that opinion, so there and you can’t make me write a proof about it.
April 12, 2013 1:21 am at 1:21 am #945478PaylesherMemberWhat is your IQ?
April 12, 2013 1:23 am at 1:23 am #945479squeakParticipantWill you answer it correctly?
April 12, 2013 1:35 am at 1:35 am #945480OneOfManyParticipantWhat is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?
April 12, 2013 1:38 am at 1:38 am #945481Torah613TorahParticipantPaylesher: 97 (according to one IQ test I took online, but I only answered the interesting questions). I like the number 97. (It is now 9:37)
squeak: To the best of my ability. (It is now 9:39)
April 12, 2013 1:50 am at 1:50 am #945482left to writeMemberWhy is there a minhag not to walk around with only socks on your feet?
April 12, 2013 1:53 am at 1:53 am #945483Torah613TorahParticipantOneOfMany: 42. That was an easy question, even a moderator could have answered it.
April 12, 2013 1:56 am at 1:56 am #945484OneOfManyParticipant^_^
now google “the answer to life, the universe and everything.” 😀
April 12, 2013 2:00 am at 2:00 am #945485SecularFrummyMemberAre there as many equal numbers as there are infinity of numbers?
April 12, 2013 2:03 am at 2:03 am #945486Torah613TorahParticipantLeft to write: Because Rabbi Miller did it, and anything that Rabbi Avigdor Miller zy”a did or said gets repeated forevermore, for better or for not better.
April 12, 2013 2:16 am at 2:16 am #945487🐵 ⌨ GamanitParticipantWhat is my IQ? It takes a lot faster to ask you than filling out that whole book…
April 12, 2013 3:00 am at 3:00 am #945488Torah613TorahParticipantOneOfMany: LOL. Very cute. Everyone reading this thread, I advise you to google “the answer to life, the universe and everything.” You will find that my answer was correct according to Google. (it is now 11:00)
SecularFrummy: Even though you didn’t say what “equal numbers” are I figure you must be asking about let’s say the set of all integers vs. the set of odds? They’re equal because you can establish a one to one correspondence. (it is now 11:01)
April 12, 2013 3:07 am at 3:07 am #945489Torah613TorahParticipantGamanit: Your Verbal IQ is between 120-130. (going with an avg Ashkenaz Jewish IQ of 115, plus another 5 points for being a member of YWN CR, plus another 5-10 points for posting fairly intelligently.) (it is now 11:07)
April 12, 2013 3:11 am at 3:11 am #945490WIYMemberYou do realize that there is always a delay for modding so your responses don’t post right away. So what is accomplished by your answering on odd minutes?
April 12, 2013 3:16 am at 3:16 am #945491Torah613TorahParticipantWIY: Nothing is accomplished. I’m not trying to accomplish anything. (it is now 11:17)
April 12, 2013 3:43 am at 3:43 am #945492SaysMeMemberon a scale of 1-10, how bored are you tonight?
April 12, 2013 4:04 am at 4:04 am #945494Torah613TorahParticipantSaysMe: 1, but that’s 1 too many. (it is now 00:03)
Rabbi Perfect: Excellent question. I asked my father, who said that in the primary stage, only the man is obligated, but in practice family life is not possible without a woman, since she fulfills vital roles. (it is now 00:05)
April 12, 2013 4:18 am at 4:18 am #945495xx ImpersonatorMemberWhat is my shoresh neshamah?
April 12, 2013 4:25 am at 4:25 am #945496Torah613TorahParticipantThe Golem Speaks: Not as a Golem, but as a real person, my feeling is Hevel, Chesed, and Middas Harachamim. (it is now 00:27)
April 12, 2013 6:38 am at 6:38 am #945497SaysMeMemberwhy is she doing this, when it hurts so much?? 🙁
April 12, 2013 11:50 am at 11:50 am #945498squeakParticipantAre there more numbers between negative infinity and positive infinity, or between 0 and 1?
What is the combined weight of all the trees cut down to produce all the US money in circulation?
April 12, 2013 12:29 pm at 12:29 pm #945499I can only tryMembersqueak-
Are there more numbers between negative infinity and positive infinity, or between 0 and 1?
Since there is no numeric range containing a larger amount of numbers than .9999999998 thru .9999999999, the answer to your question is “Neither”.
What is the combined weight of all the trees cut down to produce all the US money in circulation?
U.S. paper currency is cloth based, not wood pulp based. Zero pounds.
(Unless you count trees cut to produce power for the Mint and Bureau of Printing and Engraving, clearing land for the buildings, etc.)
April 12, 2013 12:41 pm at 12:41 pm #945500popa_bar_abbaParticipantIf you found a genie that only offered one wish, but he only answers wishes on odd numbers, and if its even he kills you, and you found him on a zero, would you ask?
April 12, 2013 12:49 pm at 12:49 pm #945501squeakParticipantThanks torahcot.
April 12, 2013 1:26 pm at 1:26 pm #945502I can only tryMembersqueak-
My pleasure.
Since I already confessed elsewhere to having one of the characteristics of “golemhood”, I figured I’d covering another, by answering before a wiser person.
April 12, 2013 1:32 pm at 1:32 pm #945503Torah613TorahParticipantSaysMe: Because she has problems (9:21)
Squeak: Both great questions. There are more numbers between 0 and 1, which is an uncountable infinity, than between negative and positive infinity of integers, which is a countable infinity, since uncountable infinities are larger than countable infinities. Therefore the infinity between 0 and 1 is larger. (9:23)
As for the trees, none. 9:25
ICOT: Start your own thread to answer questions. This is my thread and I don’t appreciate your infringement on answering. Feel free to ask any question you want though. 9:27
Popa_bar_abba: Very deep question. Without knowing the properties of the genie in question, and as a general principle based on oral traditions, it would seem wise to escape as fast as you can, and not ask for anything. 9:31
April 12, 2013 2:36 pm at 2:36 pm #945504I can only tryMemberpopa_bar_abba–
If you found a genie that only offered one wish, but he only answers wishes on odd numbers, and if its even he kills you, and you found him on a zero, would you ask?
Trick question.
Answering wishes is useless. Granting wishes makes the risk worth considering.
Torah613Torah–
My feelings are somewhat conflicted
By your rules should I be restricted?
To obey your wishes, to the letter
Or post answers that I know are better?
😛
(If you were being serious, I’ll stop)
April 12, 2013 3:12 pm at 3:12 pm #945505Torah613TorahParticipantICOT:
Whether your answers are better or worse,
Is not relevant, since you responded in verse.
When the Slayer Of Trolls posts on a troll thread,
The trolls back away slowly, in fear and in dread.
🙂
(11:13)
April 12, 2013 3:20 pm at 3:20 pm #945506yitayningwutParticipantIf you found a genie that only offered one wish, but he only answers wishes on odd numbers, and if its even he kills you, and you found him on a zero, would you ask?
Well that’s easy. I would wish for three more wishes.
See, zero is either both odd and even, or it is neither. If it’s neither, no harm no foul. If it’s both, he can kill me, but he also must grant my wish, which is to give me three more wishes (as any upstanding wisher would wish for). With one of those wishes I can wish that he does not kill me.
April 12, 2013 3:32 pm at 3:32 pm #945507squeakParticipantAll of the numbers found between zero and one are also found between neg and pos infinity. Both are aleph sub one, therefore ICOT is correct. This means you have answered 2 of my questions on this thread incorrectly so far.
You manage a hotel with infinite number of rooms, but all are occupied. Suddenly an infinite number of busses pull up with an infinite number of guests who wish to get rooms. Can you accomodate them?
April 12, 2013 3:35 pm at 3:35 pm #945508pou_bearMemberWhy isn’t Torah a girl’s name?
April 12, 2013 3:36 pm at 3:36 pm #945509I can only tryMemberTorah613Torah-
Touche ?
April 12, 2013 3:44 pm at 3:44 pm #945510Torah613TorahParticipantSqueak: You’re right, I looked it up. ICOT and squeak, thanks for helping me catch a mistake on an extra credit homework.
I think so, one at a time, but I’d better review this. I really struggle with the theoretical aspects of infinity. Every time I memorize the rules, I just forget them all the next day, it doesn’t click in my head. Can’t wait until this is over, and there had better be a reason they are forcing me to learn this some day. Do you (or anyone else here) have any advice for “getting” infinity topics? (11:45)
April 12, 2013 3:46 pm at 3:46 pm #945511squeakParticipantICOT, I know well about golemhood. As they say, “With age comes wisdom; sometimes age comes alone.”
April 12, 2013 3:51 pm at 3:51 pm #945512Torah613TorahParticipantpou bear: You can do better. But the reason is because it is not the custom.
April 12, 2013 3:54 pm at 3:54 pm #945513xx ImpersonatorMemberso many people know me?!?
April 12, 2013 3:57 pm at 3:57 pm #945514squeakParticipantAre you asking questions here or answering? The correct answer is indeed yes (yay), but how?
And your answer about the number of numbers would have been correct if I had specified ordinary numbers between neg and pos infinity. That is a countable infinity, aleph sub 0.
April 12, 2013 3:57 pm at 3:57 pm #945515pou_bearMemberi know , i know…corny. Whoa! I have not thought of or used the word “corny” in years.
April 12, 2013 4:04 pm at 4:04 pm #945516Torah613TorahParticipantThe Golem Speaks: Yes. 11:59
squeak: Yay! I now have a 50 on your course! (stop ruining the curve icot) I guess one at a time ad infinitum is not correct.
As for how: I don’t see why you can’t just move them all up one, then move each guest into room 1, then move them up one again, and move the next guest into room 1, infinite times. Instead the rule is that you can do 2n-1 (double each present guest’s number and take away 1, then move the first guest into room 1 and each guest n into room number 2n-1.)
I suppose the rule way is more convenient if you are trying to do it quickly but I don’t get why moving them up one is wrong or different. Feel free to answer questions since it is a new day and new rules.
00:01
April 12, 2013 4:11 pm at 4:11 pm #945517OneOfManyParticipantActually though the blame is on squeak for this one. He did not specify which infinite series between negative and positive infinity he was talking about, and so you assumed that he was talking aleph null class infinity, when really he was talking about aleph one class infinity (which he only later specified).
My father explained the difference between these through the pigeonhole principle, with the Hilbert’s hotel example and also the 99 bottles of beer. Just look those stuffs up. ^_^
April 12, 2013 4:16 pm at 4:16 pm #945518squeakParticipantBecause your way, you would need to ask each guest to move to their room number plus infinity in order to make infinite rooms available. They’d all end up going to the same room and tben you would have infinite complaints. By doubling the room number everyone has a unique room number to go to.
April 12, 2013 4:17 pm at 4:17 pm #945519squeakParticipantoom you are entirely incorrect
April 12, 2013 4:21 pm at 4:21 pm #945520OneOfManyParticipantwhat you say?! make your time.
April 12, 2013 4:41 pm at 4:41 pm #945521🍫Syag LchochmaParticipantDo you think the Golem is a gilgul of a former poster?
April 12, 2013 4:45 pm at 4:45 pm #945522Rabbi PerfectMemberWhat sentencing did the guy who killed Moshe Berkowitz Z’L get?
April 12, 2013 4:52 pm at 4:52 pm #945523squeakParticipantoom read my phrasing again. if you thought between the infinites i meant only ordinary numbers then you would have to interpret between 0 and 1 the same way.
April 12, 2013 4:56 pm at 4:56 pm #945524Torah613TorahParticipantSqueak thank you for your clear explanations. If only my professor and textbook was more like you.
OOM I’m pretending I didn’t see your post because it is just going to confuse me.
April 12, 2013 4:57 pm at 4:57 pm #945525Torah613TorahParticipantSyag: Good question. I don’t think so. By the way you are one of my favorite posters. Please post more often.
Rabbi Perfect: You didn’t specify Beis Dish shel Matah, so I’m going to assume you meant Bais Din Shel Maalah, and I was not privy to the deliberations. 00:59
April 12, 2013 5:16 pm at 5:16 pm #945526squeakParticipanthave your professor call me and ill straighten him out.
April 12, 2013 5:52 pm at 5:52 pm #945527I can only tryMemberWhat sentencing did the guy who killed Moshe Berkowitz Z’L get?
four to 12 years
(source: NY Post)
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