From: Austin Ziegler Date: 2004-09-03T00:12:18+09:00 Subject: Re: invisible Infinity On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 00:07:31 +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote: > At Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:10:21 +0900, > Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote in [ruby-talk:111227]: > > the reason i say this is that the notion of infinity is useful for many > > things, like Time and Date, not just Numeric. > Isn't it Eternity rather than Infinity? :) No, Eternity is the amount of time one has to wait when one is in line behind fifteen people at the grocery store with a cashier that doesn't speak one's native language, everyone having a full cart, and everyone wanting to pay by cheque. -austin -- Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca : as of this email, I have [ 6 ] Gmail invitations