Originally posted by sonhouse Even that, remember the Alexandria library, reported to have a million volumes. Good luck reading that since it burned down.
So that leads to the question, many many libraries have been lost to fire, war, terrorism so how could you ever read those even if you lived a billion years?
of course I would not be able to read what is lost and no record of
but of all the books ever written or will be written and which I would have access to, tell me what book I would never get around to reading
I repeat, even though I would fall farther and farther behind there would not be a book that I would not get around to reading
infinity is a long,long time
Originally posted by lemondrop yet
no matter how far you fall behind you will eventually read every novel
there would not be a novel that you would not get around too reading
Originally posted by lemondrop if you number each book beginning with one, then tell me which book I would not get around to reading?
At what moment?
Say you read a book each day.
And two books are written each day.
on day N you have read N books and there are N books still to read
As N approaches infinity so does the number of unread books.
Originally posted by wolfgang59 At what moment?
Say you read a book each day.
And two books are written each day.
on day N you have read N books and there are N books still to read
As N approaches infinity so does the number of unread books.
just tell me which book I would not eventually be able to read
do this and you will have refuted a proven foundation of modern mathemtics
Originally posted by lemondrop just tell me which book I would not eventually be able to read
do this and you will have refuted a proven foundation of modern mathemtics
If tell me the last book you read
I'll tell you the unread books.
i am living forever. not bothering trying to read everything, though. i know that was a silly premise. nope. i'm going for making every possible chess move. i think i'm going to make it.
You are assuming too much. You assume that the universe is infinite and will last forever. Neither true nor likely. Even so, if i am eternal I will do and see everything that has a probability of occurring.
You are assuming too much. You assume that the universe is infinite and will last forever. Neither true nor likely. Even so, if i am eternal I will do and see everything that has a probability of occurring.
eternity
12 Nov '15 20:06
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