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To: dayglored

>> What we call “chance” is only our limited ability as humans to adequately model and understand the near-infinity of precursor events that play into and affect every subsequent event.

near-infinity? Interesting limit, I think...


51 posted on 03/13/2009 10:14:44 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: Gene Eric
> near-infinity? Interesting limit, I think...

Well, I was stuck choosing a quantity name for "the number of events since the Creation". I thought of using "unimaginably huge number of", which sounded lame, and "aleph-null minus the future", which was both too esoteric and not mathematically correct, and decided that "near-infinity" was as good I could do. ;-)

67 posted on 03/14/2009 9:30:19 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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