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Old Man Statement, Day 56, 30 October 2024
Mr. Burk is so old...someone told him to put his age into the calculator but it doesn't get to that stage of infinity.
There are multiple levels of infinity!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-infinity-comes-in-different-sizes/#:~:text=As%20German%20mathematician%20Georg%20Cantor,are%20simply%20larger%20than%20others.
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/high-school-students-who-came-up-with-impossible-proof-of-pythagorean-theorem-discover-9-more-solutions-to-the-problem?utm_term=05C645DB-A321-4D0C-ABE6-FF1619A6E093&lrh=8c5792302b49511d5b55b1aab8a23790f429c91c6d0221b591feff6a06335a85&utm_campaign=368B3745-DDE0-4A69-A2E8-62503D85375D&utm_medium=email&utm_content=9880EA92-E35B-4476-9F8B-3309E61378FE&utm_source=SmartBrief
Mr. Burk is so old...someone told him to put his age into the calculator but it doesn't get to that stage of infinity.
There are multiple levels of infinity!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-infinity-comes-in-different-sizes/#:~:text=As%20German%20mathematician%20Georg%20Cantor,are%20simply%20larger%20than%20others.
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/high-school-students-who-came-up-with-impossible-proof-of-pythagorean-theorem-discover-9-more-solutions-to-the-problem?utm_term=05C645DB-A321-4D0C-ABE6-FF1619A6E093&lrh=8c5792302b49511d5b55b1aab8a23790f429c91c6d0221b591feff6a06335a85&utm_campaign=368B3745-DDE0-4A69-A2E8-62503D85375D&utm_medium=email&utm_content=9880EA92-E35B-4476-9F8B-3309E61378FE&utm_source=SmartBrief
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That was the school district's argument against allowing students to have the new fangled battery operated calculators in math class.
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