Re: spoon-business: Re: spoon-discuss: Emergency queueing

[Rob Speer <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:56:00PM -0400, bd wrote:
> {{
> Glotmorf's entropy is infinite, thus locking the game into a state defined in 
> rule 440 as if universal entropy is always above maximum entropy.
> }}

Now why in the world would it be infinite?

If you consider "infinity" as the solution to the equation x=x+50 (note
that you have to go outside the real numbers to do this, not a pretty
thing to do in a nomic) then why can't it equally well be negative
infinity?

Math teachers aren't just being a pain in the ass when they are adamant
about the distinction between "infinite" and "undefined". And I maintain
that universal entropy is not above maximum entropy, because there _is_
no number there to be above anything at all.
-- 
Rob Speer