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:*In the early 1600's Galileo began to show signs of a modern attitude toward the infinite, when he proposed that "infinity should obey a different arithmetic than finite numbers." But it was not until the late 19th century that Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a German mathematician, finally put infinity on a firm logical foundation and described a way to do arithmetic with infinite quantities useful to mathematics. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/infinity.html]
 
:*In the early 1600's Galileo began to show signs of a modern attitude toward the infinite, when he proposed that "infinity should obey a different arithmetic than finite numbers." But it was not until the late 19th century that Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a German mathematician, finally put infinity on a firm logical foundation and described a way to do arithmetic with infinite quantities useful to mathematics. [http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/infinity.html]
 
:We better start over. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 14:50, 11 April 2007 (EDT)
 
:We better start over. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] 14:50, 11 April 2007 (EDT)
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::It wasn't that bad. Infinity is not a number, but it ''is'' greater than any real number. [[User:Tsumetai|Tsumetai]] 14:52, 11 April 2007 (EDT)
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