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P.S. Mathematics was not built to sustain infinities. Multiplication is simply a shortcut as to not have to make the user add a set if the same numbers over and over again. You can simply move the decimal place over one for a finite number when multiplying by ten, but not for an infinite number. That's like multiplying a giraffe by ten and ending up with g.iraffe. Or giraffe0. With .9999999(...) you would need to add it onto itself nine more times, that's what multiplication is. But since those nines are going on forever, you can't quite have 1.9999998(...), 2.9999997, et cetera, until you get to the magic 9.999999(...) that you so brazenly entitle [i]10X[/i]. Just as trying to kick a lion to see how much it hates water doesn't work, math is not the right tool to use here. And since any infinity of anything isn't a number, even an infinite number, that would explain why math shouldn't be used. After all, you don't use it for your g.iraffes. "there's a time and place for everything, but not now." ~Professor Oak
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  • "Mathematics was not built to sustain infinities." Isaac Newton would like to have a word with you.

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  • I'm just saying, Isaac Newbton thought math could sustain infinities. Who's the one still alive? #Infinitemathnotevenonce

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  • "Who's the one that is still alive?" What? That doesn't make sense. Newton is arguably the smartest human being to ever walk the face of the Earth. He invented integral and differential calculus, the mathematics of limits (which are constructs involving infinities) and change.

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  • It was a simple joke that attempted to rub your tickle bone.

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