#InfinityAndBeyond

Original post on mitra.northumbria.me

# Silly thought by a non mathematician

_I'm totally prepared for a mathematician to tell me that this is complete rubbish!_

Having read about hyperreal and hyperinteger numbers I thought what if we had a number system base H where H is a hyperinteger.

Each column could potentially have a […]

actually the monkeys typing shakespeare bit was quite well visualised #viewersunderstandcomputers #infinityandbeyond

"it's not even in alphabetical order" mathematician confronts shakespeare #infinityandbeyond

small girl says the world is "that big" and holds her arms out <-- #cuteANDcorrect #berkoffcanfuckoff #infinityandbeyond

ok now they're at #cantor and they're using blackboard proofs and diagrams <-- why not START as plan to go on? #infinityandbeyond

god this is limpingly awful #infinityandbeyond -- the devices used to trick ppl into watching are merely baffling and AND smug #berkoff

... and cut all the scientists-with-religious-envy guff #infinityandbeyond

... then cut straight to graham's number and ron graham not knowing what the first digit is #infinityandbeyond ...

they should have started with the little kid counting and stopping at 40... #infinityandbeyond

told vick on friday that my superpower was grasping the "science of bad explanation": #infinityandbeyond shd had hired me as a consultant