Comment on Why The Government Has Infinite Money

• cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s called a limit and it is very much coneptualized in math.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A limit isn’t infinity though. Infinity has no limit. Its the oposite of a limit.

    However high you may count, there is still infinitely more you could count. And an infinite number of fractions between each and every number you counted. And all of that is included in infinity.

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    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s the technical language used to refer to a limit. Take it up with a calculus book

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      • NightAuthor@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well, the books just going off of Sr Thomas Calcula, so really you should blame him.

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• jon@lemdro.id ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In mathematical terms it’s perfectly acceptable to take about the limit of an expression as some value trends towards infinity. E.g.:

  limit (1/x)
  -----------   = 0
      X → ∞
  

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay. My last try.

    That’s a way of saying there is no specific value that is the end. The “Limit” is endless.

    If we created a currency with 10^100 units. There would me more units than the atoms in a billion universes. And it would still be infinitely far from infinity.

    So if the currency’s unit value is inversely proportional its proximity to infinity, the value of every unit of currency we could ever make is infinite. Even if we made 10^100 of them.

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    • unfreeradical@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The term limit is used in mathematics differently from how you are understanding it from vernacular usage. A mathematical limit expresses directionality toward a an unreachable value.

      The meaning of the statement is that every marginal augmentation of the money supply carries with some marginal diminution of the currency value, without any possibility that the supply may be exhausted absolutely or the value annihilated.

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    • jon@lemdro.id ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Try again, you still don’t understand the concept.

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