h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, I finally made it. It's a long hike from the rest of the campsite, including the toilet block , but it's home!

If you made it here, you must be tired. Have some , I've got plenty. I can't run out, actually. Lord knows I've tried...

-Spike A.

P.S., Any better ways to type Infinity? '' looks fine in the textarea, but once there server sends it back it's some dummy symbol.

*appears from a PRD*

whats up spike?

nice entry btw

hello love. Nice tent. it is a bit odd, isn't it. And I tought my tent was big! or is it small? It is a little confusing to look at, isn't it?

*tries to figure out what shape the tent really is and gets rather dizzy*

I think I'll take that tea, thank you.

Thought you might need it. Feel free to help yourselves, both.

-Spike A.

thank you

*accepts *

what you been up to both of you?
vira and spike A

Even on a stripped-down, post-Mardi Gras quad bike, it took a while to get this far. Perhaps that's why I couldn't find you at first.
I'm not a -drinker, thanks. I've got some in the back of the bike, though, and anyone's welcome.

Spike, you ought to be ashamed of yourself! Infinity isn't a number, it's a concept!

Nice to have you here.

Who says infinity isn't a number? It's the reciprocol of 0, silly! Here's one to wrap your mind around:

Infinity is the largest number, that is there is no number larger than infinity. The only exception is infinity itself, for

inf + 1 = inf

Therefore, infinity is greater than infinity. Conversely *infinity* is lesser than *infinity*. Thus, infinity is at either end of the number line, meaning that it's really a number circle. Visual proof? Sure! Ever seen an asymptote? Take f(x)=1/x, for example. Beginning from some negative x, f(x) gets lesser and lesser until x=0, where f(x)=inf. Now the line wraps around the back of the graph and comes down from the top. Pretty neat, huh? It's really a shame what they never teach in school...

-Spike A.

too much for a early morning

In fact, several separate infinities have been proven to exist, all larger or smaller than each other. For instance, the set of all numbers between 0 and 1 has been proven to be infinite, and larger than the set of whole numbers, which is also infinite.
Our A-level maths teacher went once got side-tracked into this, when someone asked about infinity. He wasn't a very good teacher, but boy did he know his subject!

That seems to happen a lot. The people who unerstand it can't teach, and the ones who can teach don't know enough about it, and the few who can do both wind up in some big universivy only teaching the three honers math majors who are deemed worthy.

oh, sorry spike, I think I stole your favorit rant! I guess I am spending too much time around you.

Nonsense, there's no such thing!

-Spike A.

you have very good . what else do you have siting around your pantry (all this talk about infinity is making me hungry)

Now the real question is, can we discuss infinity infinately?

I suppose we could in theory, but it would rather eat up on the free time, get boring after a while, and necessitate new scientific advances making immortality possible.

yes, but if we were busy talking about infinity, we would not be able to make those scientific advances. whoops

i have already broken the chain, i am no longer talking about infinity, i guess we will never know!

*talks about infinity*

-Spike A.

*wanders by while hiking across the campsite back to pitch 24*

Hi everyone. What an unusual tent!

Did I hear someone discussing infinity?

Yep. Good place for it, too. You say you were headed back for Pitch 24, huh? Quite a round-about way to go!

Vira, have some of my . It's infinitely long, so there's plenty for all.

-Spike A.