A Conversation for John Horton Conway - Mathematician

i wish i were a mathamatician!

Post 1

flyingtwinkle

but i am not one infinity is not an odd or even number beause it is open-ended


i wish i were a mathamatician!

Post 2

Gnomon - time to move on

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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