A Conversation for John Horton Conway - Mathematician
i wish i were a mathamatician!
flyingtwinkle Started conversation Nov 26, 2004
but i am not one infinity is not an odd or even number beause it is open-ended
i wish i were a mathamatician!
Gnomon - time to move on Posted Nov 26, 2004
You're right. It all depends exactly on your definition of odd, even and infinity. I was being slightly tongue in cheek here; Conway manages to define those three concepts in such a way that he can say that one particular infinite 'number' is even.
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