Sujet : Re: Replacement of Cardinality
De : james.g.burns (at) *nospam* att.net (Jim Burns)
Groupes : sci.mathDate : 16. Aug 2024, 19:10:56
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On 8/16/2024 12:59 PM, WM wrote:
Le 16/08/2024 à 18:49, joes a écrit :
It does not diminish,
there are always infinitely many.
>
Not according to mathematics:
∀n ∈ ℕ: 1/n - 1/(n+1) > 0 .
| In attempts to get cargo to fall by parachute or
| land in planes or ships again,
| islanders imitated the same practices
| they had seen the military personnel use.
| Cult behaviors usually involved
| mimicking the day-to-day activities and
| dress styles of US soldiers, such as
| performing parade ground drills with
| wooden or salvaged rifles.
| The islanders carved headphones from wood and
| wore them while sitting in fabricated control towers.
| They waved the landing signals
| while standing on the runways.
| They lit signal fires and torches
| to light up runways and lighthouses.
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cultTaking an equation and waving it around,
apparently just for the hell of it,
has a lot of parallels to
carving headphones from wood and
sitting in a fabricated control tower.