From: Jef Allbright (jef@jefallbright.net)
Date: Sat Oct 12 2002 - 13:33:29 MDT
As far as I know, infinitesimals are a useful concept for thinking and
modeling in a platonic sense, but have never been observed in nature. In a
related sense, I think it was Buckminster Fuller who said something like he
doubted "that nature calculates pi every time it wants to make a soap
bubble."
- Jef
>Ross writes
>
>Infinity is a great thing, it exists between any two points in the
>continuum between those two points.
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