From: Phillip Gawlowski Date: 2010-11-26T01:40:02+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby 1.8 vs 1.9 On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Yuri Tzara wrote: > Phillip Gawlowski wrote in post #963815: > > What psychological anomaly causes creationists keep saying that there > are no transitional fossils even after having been shown transitional > fossils? We might pass it off as mere cult indoctrination or > brainwashing, but the problem is a more general one. > > We also see it happening here in Mr. Gawlowski who, after being given > mathematical facts about infinity, simply repeats his uninformed > opinion. > > "The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled > person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but > their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize > their mistakes." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect) Your insult aside: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1/x I'm quite aware that IEEE 754 defines the result of x_0/0 as infinity. That is not, however, correct *in a mathematical sense*. IEEE 754, for example, also defines the result of the square root of -1 as an error. However, the result of, say the square root of -x is x* j. That's called complex numbers, BTW. Anyway: Thanks, James, for correcting me on UTF-8, etc. -- Phillip Gawlowski Though the folk I have met, (Ah, how soon!) they forget When I've moved on to some other place, There may be one or two, When I've played and passed through, Who'll remember my song or my face.