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Here is the question that was plaguing me:
If there was an infinitely small chance of something happening, but an infinitely large test area, and and infinitely small amount of time for it to happen in, how many times would it happen?
Now, i am not sure how infinity can be used in mathematics. I am just starting calculus.
Here are some questions:
Can you say that 1/infinity is just a limit of 0?
What would you say for infinity/infinity? Would this simply be undefined? If you said that both were equally infinite, logically would the answer would be infinity still, or 1?
However, if you had infinity/infinity squared...? When i think of this, i picture a really small time, a really large space, and a really small chance of the happening. It seems that it should logically happen once, but not mathematically.
Please give me your thoughts on this, i could be totally wrong with this since I am not sure if i can use infinity like this. Not sure whether this should have been in the physics forum because its kind of abstract, but i couldn't post there for some reason.
If there was an infinitely small chance of something happening, but an infinitely large test area, and and infinitely small amount of time for it to happen in, how many times would it happen?
Now, i am not sure how infinity can be used in mathematics. I am just starting calculus.
Here are some questions:
Can you say that 1/infinity is just a limit of 0?
What would you say for infinity/infinity? Would this simply be undefined? If you said that both were equally infinite, logically would the answer would be infinity still, or 1?
However, if you had infinity/infinity squared...? When i think of this, i picture a really small time, a really large space, and a really small chance of the happening. It seems that it should logically happen once, but not mathematically.
Please give me your thoughts on this, i could be totally wrong with this since I am not sure if i can use infinity like this. Not sure whether this should have been in the physics forum because its kind of abstract, but i couldn't post there for some reason.
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