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Technically all numbers are comparable.
by berekuk 10y ago
Technically all numbers are comparable.
- dexterdog 10y agoWhat about imaginary numbers?
- pmalynin 10y agoYou can still compare them, e.g two numbers could or couldn't be equal. Equality is a form of comparison
- jungans 10y agowouldn't this make all things comparable?
- taotao670 10y agoExcept apples and oranges apparently.
- DonHopkins 10y agoYou can compare apples and oranges alphabetically.
- wtetzner 10y agoAs far as I can tell, it's not that you can't compare apples and oranges, it's just often misleading.
- MichaelBurge 10y agoYou don't even have to do that: Just well-order the universe and use the resulting ordering for your less-than operator.
- ZenoArrow 10y ago1 != sqrt(-1). That's an example of a comparison between a real number and an imaginary number.
- wtbob 10y agoTechnically all nouns are comparable under equality.
- hghdfgv 10y agoTechnically incorrect: http://mrob.com/pub/math/largenum-2.html http://mrob.com/pub/math/largenum-2.html
- germanier 10y agoThat's a rather narrow definition of comparability. If nothing else said, one would understand the term with regards to the relation of any partially ordered set – not only the one implicitly defined on that page.
- scarmig 10y agoWould a tl;dr here be: Is BB(26) - BB(25) greater than or less than BB(25)?
- strictnein 10y agoGoogle didn't help me. What's BB(#)?
- betenoire 10y agoBusy Beaver
- startling 10y agoI think people are downvoting you because they're assuming you're not serious. :(
- gresrun 10y agoLink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver#The_busy_beaver_function_.CE.A3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver#The_busy_beaver_fu...
- ScottBurson 10y agoFun discussion to be found at: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html