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In understanding the truth of things, is it important that we can not perform the addition an infinite number of times? What if God can...

Finitism seems more of an intellectual exercise than an attempt to progress mathematics.

No. I think it is part of the "Big Bang" expansion theory. But I will not say more, because I do not know more. I'll leave it to others.

I don't think the password needs to be disabled. It still needs to be used to recover if your device dies or if you want to use the...

Well, we've had about a dozen accounts per year hacked lately where a spammer guesses your password and posts malicious spam under...

I don't. People who know infinitely more than me say it is. But it might be debatable.

Conditional probability is tricky and full of counter-intuitive results. Exactly. And it can help you to understand where your initial...

I'm amazed by the length of this thread. In a sense, it confirms what I've often thought about statistics and probability: the rules...

AFAIK, the big difference between the problem and the gameshow is that Monty had other options besides just "open a door". The problem...

If Monty is allowed to play games, that changes everything and brings game theory into the equation. In that case, there is no way to...

He never did. It was not a stated rule, but we can infer that he had the knowledge where the car was and used that knowledge to open a...

Is that right? That is a critical difference. I didn't watch it enough to know if Monte ever opened a door with the prize. I was just...

Infinity is for example necessary to write transcendental functions via their Taylor series (if it exists). ##e^x = 1 + x +...

It is worth checking Cantor out.

Even with analytic continuation, I doubt that there is any legitimate expansion at a point that allows that conclusion.