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jsfisher said:
Ok, so why did you include the circle? Just more noise to confuse the issue? That seems to be your hallmark trait. Scramble as much together as possible so you can bounce from the absurd to the inane without missing a beat, and always have enough remaining outlets so gibberish can save you from any criticism.

A little sense of beauty, that is all you need jsfisher (http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5703507&postcount=8989):

Take a straight 1-dim with length X.

Bend it and get 4 equal sides along it.

Since the length between the opposite edges is changed to the sum of only 3 sides, and since the number of the sides after the first bending is 4 sides, we have to multiply the bended 1-dim element by 1/(the number of the bended sides), in order to get back length X.

As a result the bended 1-dim element has length X, but the length between its opposite edges becomes smaller (it converges).

In general, this convergent series of 1/(the number of the bended sides) is resulted by 1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+... , which has no limit exactly because length X is invariant on infinitely many convergent scales of that series.

The proof without words (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_without_words) was drawn by using AutoCad system, and it is accurate (each given bended 1-dim element has the same X length over infinitely many scales):

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You are invited to provide the complete statement of the axiom, by using simple English.

I have provided a complete statement of the axiom. I'm sorry you don't understand the language in which it was expressed, but that is your problem, not mine.

Oppeness and Incompleteness are exactly the same notion about infinite collections, that can't be captured by qany limit or class.

No, terms you invent don't actually mean anything because you refuse to define them. Still, it is nice to see you admit that you also invent multiple terms all to mean the same thing. It reinforces the notion that your gibberish confuses even you.


You assume far too much. You also didn't comprehend the question I asked. No surprise on either count.
 
The Man, you simply cant rid of the use of points (localities) in your analysis.

“rid of”? So you are simply and deliberately ignoring the “points (localities)” as well as dimensions because you want to be “rid of” them?

The circle and the Koch’s fractal are both closed 1-dim elements, with not even a single point along them.

Nope, as zooterkin has pointed out to you several times already your ‘bended’ line is no longer one dimensional. You have 'bent' it at some “points (localities)” into at least one other dimension. In fact the fully iterated Koch curve (which is a fractal as noted by jsfisher) has a Hausdorff dimension of log(4)/Log(3) or about 1.2619, same as the Cantor set in 2 dimensions referred to as “Cantor dust”

ETA line: 3 such Koch curves would form the Koch snowflake or anti-snowflake.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fractals_by_Hausdorff_dimension

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_dust#Cantor_dust

Inside each convergent circle’s length (which is a 1-dim atomic element) there is a Koch’s fractal (which is a 1-dim atomic element) which its length is invariant upon infinitely many convergent levels.

What, so now the circle is convergent? Again a circle is one dimensional because of the consistency of its radius, your ‘bended’ line has no such consistent radius (if it did it would be a circle).

As a result the convergent series of circles is infinite as long as the invariant length within each convergent circle is found, and more precisely, the increased complexity of Koch’s invariant length is found.

If this convergent series of circles’ lengths has the value of the limit (which is zero) Koch’s fractal invariant length and its infinite increased complexity is lost.

Conclusion: Koch’s fractal invariant length and its infinite increased complexity, is found as long as the value of the limit (which is 0) is not reached, and as a result we get a naturally open and incomplete convergent series.


Again a set does not have to have its limit (or limits) as a member (or members) of that set. Again if you simply make “open and incomplete” synonymous with “infinite” then your are simply claming “as a result we get a naturally ” infinite “convergent series“.



So did you simply miss that fact or are you deliberately ignoring it?

Again your simple and deliberate ignorance combined with your morbid fantasies do not constitute facts (other than you being deliberate ignorant and enjoying your morbid fantasy).

“So what” clearly summarizes your “deep” understanding of this subject.

Again we see that you simply mentioning “DNA” and “the mass of a shrinked star” “clearly summarizes your “deep” understanding of” those subjects. Doron you simply mentioning those topics does not suddenly imbue either you or your OM with any understanding of them (“deep” or otherwise).


Again we see how your standard notion that is based on stretched points as the basis of lines, prevents from you to understand the real complexity, which is the result of Non-locality\Locality Linkage.

Who ever said anything about “stretched points”, other then you?

The terms of the series are exactly the reason of why the given series has no limit and no sum (it is inherently incomplete).

What? So now the series does not even have a limit? Again you simply making “incomplete” sysnonomus with “infinite” means all you are claiming is that the series “is inherently” infinite.

Simply wrong, and your insistence to claim otherwise does not change the fact that it is a wrong argument of jsfisher, on this subject.

Your simple and apparently deliberate ignorance of what constitutes a fractal does not infact make them fractals


As already explained to you before, any infinite collection is inherently incomplete, exactly because it is not limited to any class.

Um “incomplete” would be a class of collections (even when you do simply make it mean infinite), again since you make “incomplete” synonymous with “infinite” you are again simply stating that “any infinite collection is inherently” infinite.

This “proof” was wrong 2,300 years ago, it is wrong now, and it will stay wrong for the next coming 2,300 years.

In other words, it is a time independent false.


Again your simple and deliberate ignorance as well as your preference for your morbid fantasy do not refute that proof.




Closed under classes, isn't it The Man?

No, it is closed under an operation of succession as clearly stated and affirmed by your own assertion.

Any knowledge (obsolete or novel, it does not matter) uses also "baby staps" in order to help people to grasp it, so?

Until you stop deliberately choosing to be just a baby about things. Any chance of you growing up any time soon Doron?


Yes, also by Head/Hammer scholars.

It was Head/Hummer that I recommended, if you recall.
 
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The Man said:
Nope, as zooterkin has pointed out to you several times already your ‘bended’ line is no longer one dimensional.

Bended line has no impact on its length, and this is exactly the reason of why infinitely many bended levels are inherently incomplete (the 0 length at the limit is not reached, otherwise we get the false equation (X>0)=0).

Standard Math can't deal with this anomaly by using Limits.


The Man said:
Again a circle is one dimensional because of the consistency of its radius, your ‘bended’ line has no such consistent radius

1) The invariant length of Koch's fractal is measured under 1-dim (only the length is considered).

2) The length of the 1-dim element , which clearly converges at each additional bended level, is not influenced by the infinitely many additional bended levels.

3) So we get an anomaly of standard analysis, where at the base of 1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+… convergent series of bended levels there is an invariant length > 0, which is resulted by an incomplete number of bended levels, because it logically can't reach the limit point, which its length is exactly 0.

4) By including the limit point as a part of the convergent series of bended levels, we actually claim that the invariant length > 0 is also equal to the length of the limit point, which is exactly 0, which is a contradiction notated as (X>0) = 0.

5) Conclusion:

X>0

X+X+X+X+… stands at the basis of a convergent series like 1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+… and as a result this series is incomplete exactly because (X>0) = 0 is false.

The Man said:
Again a set does not have to have its limit (or limits) as a member (or members) of that set.
The limit (which has length 0) or any bended location along the 1-dim element, do not contribute anything the invariant X>0 length of the 1-dim element.

The bended locations along X invariant length contributes only the convergence of X upon infinitely many bended levels, which are incomplete, exactly because X length is invariant under infinitely many convergent bended levels ((X>0) = 0 is not a part of the reasoning).

So The Man, after all 1+1+1+… is relevant under a convergent series like 1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+…

The Man said:
Who ever said anything about “stretched points”, other then you?
You are right about that. You used the term "dragged point" in order to define a line.

In that case please show us how a dragged 0-dim, which is local by nature, can define a 1-dim, which is non-local by nature.

The Man said:
What? So now the series does not even have a limit?
Good morning The Man, your limit notion is only a part of your false dream.

The Man said:
Um “incomplete” would be a class of collections
No.

Incompleteness is exactly the notion that is not bounded by the Class notion.

The Man said:
No, it is closed under an operation of succession
Succession it a Trojan horse of any closed notion, exactly as the invariant X>0 is a trojan horse of the convergent series 1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+… which is naturally opened (the inconsistency of (X>0)=0 is not a part of the consistent reasoning of the openness of any infinite collection).

The Man said:
Until you stop deliberately choosing to be just a baby about things. Any chance of you growing up any time soon Doron?

Any chance that (X>0)=0 will not be a part of your reasoning, The Man?

The Man said:
Doron you simply mentioning those topics does not suddenly imbue either you or your OM with any understanding of them (“deep” or otherwise).
The "sudden effect" of these topics is the result of your obsolete Limit-oriented knowledge of these topics.
 
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jsfisher said:
I have provided a complete statement of the axiom. I'm sorry you don't understand the language in which it was expressed,
Nonsense.

Real universal notions are not limited to any particular language or form of expression.

So this time please translate the universal notion to plain English and do not hide behind your particular expression of it.

jsfisher said:
No, terms you invent don't actually mean anything because you refuse to define them.

Wake up jsfisher it is already done at http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5704824&postcount=9004 (both by a diagram and a string of symbols) but you can't get it because your reasoning is closed under the expression of a sting of linear representation of symbols (which is nothing but a particular expression of a notion, and if a notion is limited to some particular representation, its universality is lost).

jsfisher said:
Still, it is nice to see you admit that you also invent multiple terms all to mean the same thing.
This is the whole idea of a universal notion, it is not limited to any particular expression of it.

Again your linear-only step-by-step local-only reasoning rising its limited head.
 
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The Man said:
What, so now the circle is convergent? Again a circle is one dimensional because of the consistency of its radius, your ‘bended’ line has no such consistent radius (if it did it would be a circle).

Again generalization problems The Man?

The general thing here is Length.

By providing the proof without words (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_without_words) below, I clearly expose an anomaly at the Limit-oriented reasoning, where a convergent length is linked with an invariant length, over infinitely many convergent scale levels, and as a result the convergent series of that convergent length can't have 0 as a part of that series.

As a result we get infinitely many and incomplete convergent scale levels, that approaches but can't get length 0.


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The Man said:
In fact the fully iterated Koch curve (which is a fractal as noted by jsfisher) has a Hausdorff dimension of log(4)/Log(3) or about 1.2619,

1) 1.2619… is not an accurate value, so you have no accurate sum of Koch's fractal dimension, and your Limit-oriented approach fails also in this case.

2) 1.2619… is some (and non-accurate) result of a particular logs's base, so also in this case 1.2619… does not provide the dimension of Koch's fractal.
 
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The Man said:
Again a set does not have to have its limit (or limits) as a member (or members) of that set.

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So they are least upper bounds or greatest lower bounds, which are known also as the limits of a given set, which are not necessearly members of a given set.

It does not change the fact that the limit element is not the final element of an infinite collection, whether it is a member of a given set or not.

We are dealing here with a limit of a convergent series of added length, and I provided a proof without words in http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5704824&postcount=9004 which proves that an infinite convergent series has no limit.

This proof is an anomaly of standard math of this subject, and therefore cannot be comprehended by using the standard knowledge of this subject.
 
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Bended line has no impact on its length, and this is exactly the reason of why infinitely many bended levels are inherently incomplete (the 0 length at the limit is not reached, otherwise we get the false equation (X>0)=0).

The point wasn’t about length, but dimensions. Are you simply or deliberately unable to distinguish length from dimensions?

Since you bring up length anyway, the Koch curve has an infinite length giving the Koch snowflake an infinite perimeter, but it still encompasses a finite area.

Standard Math can't deal with this anomaly by using Limits.

Try actually learning and using what you call “Standard Math”, at least then you might understand the difference between length and dimension.



1) The invariant length of Koch's fractal is measured under 1-dim (only the length is considered).

That “length” still involves more than one dimension so the appropriate term would be perimeter.

2) The length of the 1-dim element , which clearly converges at each additional bended level, is not influenced by the infinitely many additional bended levels.

In the actual construction of a Koch snowflake the perimeter increases by 1/3 with each iteration so the value of it’s perimeter is divergent not convergent.

Now in limiting that perimeter to a finite value (1 in this case) you wind up with an interesting problem. In that you have to scale down the construction (of an actual Koch snowflake) by 1/3 with each iteration to maintain your finite perimeter requirement. So you are simply scaling down your inscribing circle by 1/3 each time and thus end up with a convergent series with a common ration of 1/3 that starts at a value of 2*p*{[Tan(60)*1/6]-[Tan(30)*1/6]} or about 1.209 (the circumference of your first circle). Making the difference between the 3 times series and your original as 6*p*{[Tan(60)*1/6]-[Tan(30)*1/6]} (3 times circumference of your first circle) and thus the sum of your series as 3*p*{[Tan(60)*1/6]-[Tan(30)*1/6]} or about 1.814 (3/2 times the circumference of your first circle).

So your inclusion of your perimeter limited pseudo-Koch snowflake is entirely superfluous, as jsfisher has already noted.


3) So we get an anomaly of standard analysis, where at the base of 1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+… convergent series of bended levels there is an invariant length > 0, which is resulted by an incomplete number of bended levels, because it logically can't reach the limit point, which its length is exactly 0.

The “anomaly of standard analysis” simply remains yours, based once again on your simple or deliberate misunderstanding and misrepresentation of what you call “Standard Math”.

4) By including the limit point as a part of the convergent series of bended levels, we actually claim that the invariant length > 0 is also equal to the length of the limit point, which is exactly 0, which is a contradiction notated as (X>0) = 0.

5) Conclusion:

X>0

Again the limit of a set need not be a member of that set and the perimeter in the construction of an actual Koch snowflake is divergent not convergent. The fractal has an infinite perimeter, but encompasses a finite area.


X+X+X+X+… stands at the basis of a convergent series like 1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+… and as a result this series is incomplete exactly because (X>0) = 0 is false.

“1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+…” is not “X+X+X+X+…” it is however X+X/4+X/16+X/64+X/256.…. Again “X+X+X+X+…”, having a common ratio equal to 1, would be divergent not convergent. Once again your assertions are easily demonstrated to be simply false.


The limit (which has length 0) or any bended location along the 1-dim element, do not contribute anything the invariant X>0 length of the 1-dim element.

A limit contributes exactly that, a limitation. Exactly as your perimeter value always equals one is just your own limitation in this instance.

The bended locations along X invariant length contributes only the convergence of X upon infinitely many bended levels, which are incomplete, exactly because X length is invariant under infinitely many convergent bended levels ((X>0) = 0 is not a part of the reasoning).

If “X” is “invariant” then a series of infinitely many “X”s is not convergent.


So The Man, after all 1+1+1+… is relevant under a convergent series like 1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+…

No Doron even after all your nonsensical gibberish “1+1+1+…” is still only divergent and “1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+…” only convergent.

You are right about that. You used the term "dragged point" in order to define a line.

In that case please show us how a dragged 0-dim, which is local by nature, can define a 1-dim, which is non-local by nature.


It was already given to you before Doron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension

Inductive dimension
Main article: Inductive dimension
An inductive definition of dimension can be created as follows. Consider a discrete set of points (such as a finite collection of points) to be 0-dimensional. By dragging a 0-dimensional object in some direction, one obtains a 1-dimensional object. By dragging a 1-dimensional object in a new direction, one obtains a 2-dimensional object. In general one obtains an n+1-dimensional object by dragging an n dimensional object in a new direction.
The inductive dimension of a topological space may refer to the small inductive dimension or the large inductive dimension, and is based on the analogy that (n + 1)-dimensional balls have n dimensional boundaries, permitting an inductive definition based on the dimension of the boundaries of open sets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_dimension
Inductive dimension
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In the mathematical field of topology, the inductive dimension of a topological space X is either of two values, the small inductive dimension ind(X) or the large inductive dimension Ind(X). These are based on the observation that, in n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn, (n − 1)-dimensional spheres (that is, the boundaries of n-dimensional balls) have dimension n − 1. Therefore it should be possible to define the dimension of a space inductively in terms of the dimensions of the boundaries of suitable open sets.
The small and large inductive dimensions are two of the three most usual ways of capturing the notion of "dimension" for a topological space, in a way that depends only on the topology (and not, say, on the properties of a metric space). The other is the Lebesgue covering dimension. The term "topological dimension" is ordinarily understood to refer to Lebesgue covering dimension. For "sufficiently nice" spaces, the three measures of dimension are equal.


Just another way of considering or defining the dimensions of an object or space in what you like to call “Standard Math”.


Good morning The Man, your limit notion is only a part of your false dream.

Good morning Doron, oh wait, sorry, you still haven’t woken up from your morbid dream of saving our civilization with your OM fantasies. Well, maybe tomorrow then?

No.

Incompleteness is exactly the notion that is not bounded by the Class notion.

Unbounded sets are a class of sets just as bounded sets are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbounded_set

Succession it a Trojan horse of any closed notion, exactly as the invariant X>0 is a trojan horse of the convergent series 1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+… which is naturally opened (the inconsistency of (X>0)=0 is not a part of the consistent reasoning of the openness of any infinite collection).

No the inclusion in the set of the successor of any element in that set is specifically what closes the set under an operation of succession on any element of that set. If you think it is a “Trojan horse” that attacks your notions that’s just because you brought it in yourself.

Any chance that (X>0)=0 will not be a part of your reasoning, The Man?

It never has been Doron, it is simply part of your deliberately failed “reasoning” that you like to ascribe to others.

The "sudden effect" of these topics is the result of your obsolete Limit-oriented knowledge of these topics.


“sudden effect”? So you do think that simply mentioning some topic out of hand has a "sudden effect" that you hope will confuse people into thinking you actually know something about that topic?




Again generalization problems The Man?

Again Doron “generalization” does not mean simply claiming whatever you think suits your notions.


The general thing here is Length.

Again the appropriate term would be perimeter since more than one dimension is involved.

By providing the proof without words (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_without_words) below, I clearly expose an anomaly at the Limit-oriented reasoning, where a convergent length is linked with an invariant length, over infinitely many convergent scale levels, and as a result the convergent series of that convergent length can't have 0 as a part of that series.



As a result we get infinitely many and incomplete convergent scale levels, that approaches but can't get length 0.


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Again a limit need not be a member of the set. For some reason you seem to think that the set not including its limit or limits as members somehow makes it incomplete. Of course since you simply make “incomplete” synonymous with “infinite” your assertion of “As a result we get infinitely many and incomplete convergent scale levels” simply means “As a result we get infinitely many and” infinite “convergent scale levels”.


1) 1.2619… is not an accurate value, so you have no accurate sum of Koch's fractal dimension, and your Limit-oriented approach fails also in this case.

“sum of Koch's fractal dimension”? Who said anything about a “sum of Koch's fractal dimension”, other than you. So now you are just going to deliberately confuse the Hausdorff dimension of a fractal with the sum of a convergent series? Yes “1.2619… is not an accurate value” that is why I said “or about 1.2619” the exact value is log(4)/Log(3) also as clearly given before.



2) 1.2619… is some (and non-accurate) result of a particular logs's base, so also in this case 1.2619… does not provide the dimension of Koch's fractal.

It provides the Hausdorff dimension of that fractal and others. As jsfisher has asked before….


do you have any understanding whatsoever of the impact fractals have had on the meaning of length and dimension?

What you call “standard math” is not the dogmatic adherence to previous understanding that you like to pretend and profess it to be.
 
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So they are least upper bounds or greatest lower bounds, which are known also as the limits of a given set, which are not necessearly members of a given set.

Not all sets are bounded.

It does not change the fact that the limit element is not the final element of an infinite collection, whether it is a member of a given set or not.

If it is a member (and least upper bound) then it is the finail element of that collection.

We are dealing here with a limit of a convergent series of added length, and I provided a proof without words in http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5704824&postcount=9004 which proves that an infinite convergent series has no limit.

No you didn’t, you simply imposed your own limit of the perimeter value for your superfluous pseudo Koch snowflake must be one and that still didn’t remove the limit of 0 for your scaled down inscribing circles or the sum of that series, which I have given you in my previous post.

This proof is an anomaly of standard math of this subject, and therefore cannot be comprehended by using the standard knowledge of this subject.

The “anomaly” is just in your brain Doron that has you preferring your own misinterpretation and misrepresentations and therefore you simply can not comprehend “the standard knowledge of this subject”.
 
Nonsense.

Real universal notions are not limited to any particular language or form of expression.

So this time please translate the universal notion to plain English and do not hide behind your particular expression of it.

Since "real universal notions are not limited to any particular language or form of expression" you should have no trouble dealing with the form I provided.

In other words, you deal with the translation.

Was there something you found lacking in my formulation of the Axiom of Infinity? If so, let's discuss that rather than your lack of fluency in formal languages.

Wake up jsfisher it is already done at http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5704824&postcount=9004 (both by a diagram and a string of symbols) but you can't get it because your reasoning is closed under the expression of a sting of linear representation of symbols (which is nothing but a particular expression of a notion, and if a notion is limited to some particular representation, its universality is lost).

No, it wasn't already done back in that or any URL. You don't define your terms, ever.

This is the whole idea of a universal notion, it is not limited to any particular expression of it.

It can be a universal notion only if it is, um, what's the word, oh yeah, universal. Yours are not. They are just nonsense. What to prove me wrong? Then define something.
 
By providing the proof without words....

Setting aside for a moment your bogus attempt at using AutoCAD as an automated theorem generator, what is it you think you actually proved? Can you give a concise statement of your theorem?
 
The Man said:
Since you bring up length anyway, the Koch curve has an infinite length giving the Koch snowflake an infinite perimeter, but it still encompasses a finite area.

No, it has an incomplete area based on infinite interpolation that has no accurate sum.

You still do not get that any infinite collection is inherently incomplete, whether it is expressed as infinite interpolation or infinite extrapolation.

The Man said:
In the actual construction of a Koch snowflake the perimeter increases by 1/3 with each iteration so the value of it’s perimeter is divergent not convergent.

Now in limiting that perimeter to a finite value (1 in this case) you wind up with an interesting problem. In that you have to scale down the construction (of an actual Koch snowflake) by 1/3 with each iteration to maintain your finite perimeter requirement. So you are simply scaling down your inscribing circle by 1/3 each time and thus end up with a convergent series with a common ration of 1/3 that starts at a value of 2**{[Tan(60)*1/6]-[Tan(30)*1/6]} or about 1.209 (the circumference of your first circle). Making the difference between the 3 times series and your original as 6**{[Tan(60)*1/6]-[Tan(30)*1/6]} (3 times circumference of your first circle) and thus the sum of your series as 3**{[Tan(60)*1/6]-[Tan(30)*1/6]} or about 1.814 (3/2 times the circumference of your first circle).

So your inclusion of your perimeter limited pseudo-Koch snowflake is entirely superfluous, as jsfisher has already noted.
All you did is to show that an infinite interpolation has no accurate sum (in your language it is about 1.814…), which is exactly the same result of my infinite converges series, which has an invariant length of Koch's fractal > 0 that can't reach the limit value, which is exactly 0.

And I also showed it without using any circle, but simply show how the convergent length between the opposite edges of the Koch's fractal can't be 0, as long as these edges are in common with the invariant length of the Koch's fractal, upon infinitely many bended levels, here it is again (no circles are used):
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You simply have no real notion of the inherent incompleteness of infinite collection (and in this case, infinite collection of bended levels).

A finite value has an accurate sum, an infinite value does not have an accurate sum, but you simply can't get it because you do not understand the real nature of infinite interpolation\extrapolation.

The Man said:
“1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+…” is not “X+X+X+X+…” it is however X+X/4+X/16+X/64+X/256.…. Again “X+X+X+X+…”, having a common ratio equal to 1, would be divergent not convergent. Once again your assertions are easily demonstrated to be simply false.
The Man said:
If “X” is “invariant” then a series of infinitely many “X”s is not convergent.

Again, the convergent length between the opposite edges of the Koch's fractal can't be 0 (where 0 is the value of the limit), as long as these edges are in common with the invariant length of the Koch's fractal, upon infinitely many bended levels, as shown above, but you prefer to ignore this proof without words, because it does not fit your Limit-oriented notion, which is obsolete.

The Man said:
A limit contributes exactly that, a limitation. Exactly as your perimeter value always equals one is just your own limitation in this instance.
Exactly because the Koch's fractal has an invariant length > 0 , there are infinitely many bended levels that can't reach the value of the limit, which is exactly 0.

The limitation is entirely the result of your Limit-oriented approach, that prevents the notion of infinite interpolation\extrapolation, which is inherently non-limited.

The Man said:
No Doron even after all your nonsensical gibberish “1+1+1+…” is still only divergent and “1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+…” only convergent.
You do not get that in my model there is no dichotomy between invariant AND convergent length, as clearly shown and explained above, but you can't get this anomaly because you are using a model that is based on dichotomy.

The Man said:
It was already given to you before Doron.

Just another way of considering or defining the dimensions of an object or space in what you like to call “Standard Math”.
Both Wiki sources are not based on the qualitative difference between the local and non-local atomic aspects that send at the basis of any complex like Set (for example).

Again an obsolete knowledge is used by you The Man, which is irrelevant to OM's novel notions, of this subject.

The Man said:
Unbounded sets are a class of sets just as bounded sets are.
No, the incompleteness of a collection is not closed under Class, where a set is a particular case of a collection that is closed under Class.

The Man said:
No the inclusion in the set of the successor of any element in that set is specifically what closes the set under an operation of succession on any element of that set. If you think it is a “Trojan horse” that attacks your notions that’s just because you brought it in yourself.
Since any infinite collection (where a set is a particular case of a collection that is closed under Class) is inherently incomplete (it has a “Trojan horse”), it does not have "closed gates".

You simply ignore the inherent incompleteness of any collection, whether it is closed under Classes or not.

The Man said:
“sudden effect”? So you do think that simply mentioning some topic out of hand has a "sudden effect" that you hope will confuse people into thinking you actually know something about that topic?
Again, the "“sudden effect” is the result of your obsolete Limit-oriented notion of this subject.

The Man said:
Again the appropriate term would be perimeter since more than one dimension is involved.
No, it is about an anomaly of the standard model, which shows how a length can be both invariant AND variant (converges, in this case) in a one model.

The Man said:
“sum of Koch's fractal dimension”? Who said anything about a “sum of Koch's fractal dimension”, other than you. So now you are just going to deliberately confuse the Hausdorff dimension of a fractal with the sum of a convergent series? Yes “1.2619… is not an accurate value” that is why I said “or about 1.2619” the exact value is log(4)/Log(3) also as clearly given before.
This is another example of your inability to understand the generalization of this subject.

The Man said:
If it is a member (and least upper bound) then it is the finail element of that collection.
Any infinite collection is inherently incomplete, or in other words, any given element of that collection is not its final element, and order has no impact on that fact.

The Man said:
No you didn’t, you simply imposed your own limit of the perimeter value for your superfluous pseudo Koch snowflake must be one and that still didn’t remove the limit of 0 for your scaled down inscribing circles or the sum of that series, which I have given you in my previous post.
On the contrary, your Limit-oriented notation, can't get the model where both invariant AND variant (converges, in this case) length are found.

Your built-in dichotomy of your notions simply can't get this anomaly of Standard Math model of this subject.

The Man said:
The “anomaly” is just in your brain Doron that has you preferring your own misinterpretation and misrepresentations and therefore you simply can not comprehend “the standard knowledge of this subject”.
A typical reply of a person that uses built-in dichotomy and Limit-oriented notions of this subject.

How boring.​
 
The Man said:
What? That “(1/2+1/4+1/8+…) - (1/2+1/4+1/8+…) = 0” is a key element of the proof that such a convergent series has a sum.

Not at all.

Two sizes of the same incompleteness have result 0 if they are subtracted from each other.

The real problem here is 1 – (1/2+1/4+1/8+…) and Archimedes did prove that it = 0.


The self similarity over scales clearly shown also by the following diagram, where the values 1,2,4,8,16,32,… etc. are not reached, ad infinituum:

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In other words:

1 – (1/2+1/4+1/8+…) > 0

2 - (1/1+1/2+1/4+...) > 0

4 - (2/1+1/1+1/2+...) > 0

...

etc. ad infinituum/
 
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Not at all.

Two sizes of the same incompleteness have result 0 if they are subtracted from each other.

Since it is the 2 times series (the series added to itself) minus the series, that just leaves the series as the difference between the 2 times series and the series, which in this case is 1.

The real problem here is 1 – (1/2+1/4+1/8+…) and Archimedes did prove that it = 0.

What so now 1 has “the same incompleteness” as “(1/2+1/4+1/8+…)”? Again what Archimedes proved is that an infinite convergent series has a finite sum and in this case it is 1



The self similarity over scales clearly shown also by the following diagram, where the values 1,2,4,8,16,32,… etc. are not reached, ad infinituum:

[qimg]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4405947817_0146693fb4_o.jpg[/qimg]

In other words:

1 – (1/2+1/4+1/8+…) > 0

Well that goes against your statement above.

The real problem here is 1 – (1/2+1/4+1/8+…) and Archimedes did prove that it = 0.

Seems you do have a “real problem here”, but it is just with yourself.

2 - (1/1+1/2+1/4+...) > 0

4 - (2/1+1/1+1/2+...) > 0

...

etc. ad infinituum/

Further assumptions based on your simple assumption that the “(1/2+1/4+1/8+…)” has no sum are just as invalid as your initial assumption, which again was proven wrong some 2,300 years ago.
 
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All you did is to show that an infinite interpolation has no accurate sum (in your language it is about 1.814…), which is exactly the same result of my infinite converges series, which has an invariant length of Koch's fractal > 0 that can't reach the limit value, which is exactly 0.

And I also showed it without using any circle, but simply show how the convergent length between the opposite edges of the Koch's fractal can't be 0, as long as these edges are in common with the invariant length of the Koch's fractal, upon infinitely many bended levels



No, you got a big fail on this for multiple reasons.

First, you still continue to refer to the generations of Koch's curve as a fractal. This is pure ignorance on your part; only the generation limit is a fractal.

Second, you have not actually proven the curve generations under your length invariant constraint fit your "lute of doron" shape. It is trivial to do, but you seem unable to actually do it.

Third, you claim (in effect) the distance between the end points of any Koch curve generation cannot be zero in your construction. While the statement is true (but completely beyond your ability to prove, I suspect), it does not let you draw your bogus conclusion about the limit.

Fourth, you make a baseless assumption relating end-point distance and overall curve length for the limiting case in your Koch curve construction.

Fifth, you still insist on using the bogus word "bended".

For your original construction of Koch's snowflake, your argument was equally deficient, but the focus then was the relationships of area and perimeter.
 
The Man said:
What so now 1 has “the same incompleteness” as “(1/2+1/4+1/8+…)”? Again what Archimedes proved is that an infinite convergent series has a finite sum and in this case it is 1
Further assumptions based on your simple assumption that the “(1/2+1/4+1/8+…)” has no sum are just as invalid as your initial assumption, which again was proven wrong some 2,300 years ago.

The Man, 1 is an accurate value where (1/2+1/4+1/8+…) does not have an accurate value.

As a result 1 – (1/2+1/4+1/8+…) = 0.000…1[base 2]

X = (1/2+1/4+1/8+…)

If you think that X+X = accurate value, you simply wrong, because 2X, 4X, 8X etc … do not have accurate values, and Archimedes did not prove that any of 1X, 2X, 4X, 8X ,16X , 32X … etc. have accurate values, and the following diagrams are a proof without words that Archimedes initial assumption was wrong:
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jsfisher said:
only the generation limit is a fractal.

Exeactly the opposite, only the incomplete generation is an infinite fractal.

Again, 1 is not a fractal and (1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16...) is a single path along a fractal exactly because 1-(1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16...)=0.000...1[base 2], exactly as shown in:
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Exeactly the opposite, only the incomplete generation is an infinite fractal.

It continues to be a great disappointment that you were unable to receive a dictionary for Hanukkah. Have you considered just buying one on your own?

Again, 1 is not a fractal....

What are you on about now? Nobody has even suggested that 1 be a fractal. That would be idiotic.
 
The Man, 1 is an accurate value where (1/2+1/4+1/8+…) does not have an accurate value.

As a result 1 – (1/2+1/4+1/8+…) = 0.000…1[base 2]

Again just your baseless assumption that has already been proven wrong some 2,300 years ago.

X = (1/2+1/4+1/8+…)

If you think that X+X = accurate value, you simply wrong, because 2X, 4X, 8X etc … do not have accurate values, and Archimedes did not prove that any of 1X, 2X, 4X, 8X ,16X , 32X … etc. have accurate values, and the following diagrams are a proof without words that Archimedes initial assumption was wrong:
[qimg]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/4405947817_0146693fb4_o.jpg[/qimg]

Just what do you think “Archimedes initial assumption was”? Unlike you he did not simply assume something then draw some images representing that assumption and claim it’s “a proof without words”. Again the basis of Archimedes proof are self similarity, that X=X and X+X-X=X. To refute the proof your have to refute one or all of those aspects the proof is actually based on not simply repeating your assumed and imaginary “accurate value” nonsense. If think you can refute one or all of those aspects to refute that proof you are going to end up just digging a hole for yourself as even your OM depends upon those aspects being valid.
 
No, you got a big fail on this for multiple reasons.

First, you still continue to refer to the generations of Koch's curve as a fractal. This is pure ignorance on your part; only the generation limit is a fractal.

Second, you have not actually proven the curve generations under your length invariant constraint fit your "lute of doron" shape. It is trivial to do, but you seem unable to actually do it.

Third, you claim (in effect) the distance between the end points of any Koch curve generation cannot be zero in your construction. While the statement is true (but completely beyond your ability to prove, I suspect), it does not let you draw your bogus conclusion about the limit.

Fourth, you make a baseless assumption relating end-point distance and overall curve length for the limiting case in your Koch curve construction.

Fifth, you still insist on using the bogus word "bended".

For your original construction of Koch's snowflake, your argument was equally deficient, but the focus then was the relationships of area and perimeter.



You still do not get it do you?

So let us improve the proof without words, by using Koch's fractal.

1) Take a straight 1-dim with length X.

2) Bend it and get 4 equal sides along it.

3) Since the length between the opposite edges is changed to the sum of only 3 sides, and since the number of the sides after the first bending is 4 sides, we have to multiply the bended 1-dim element by 1/(the number of the bended sides), in order to get back length X.

As a result the bended 1-dim element has length X, but the length between its opposite edges becomes smaller (it converges).

In general, this convergent series of 1/(the number of the bended sides) is resulted by 1/1+1/4+1/16+1/64+1/256+... , where X is subtracted by (2a+2b+2c+2d+…)

Here is the result:

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4) By Standard Math X – (2a+2b+2c+2d+…) = 0


5) (4) is false because (2a+2b+2c+2d+…) can be found as long as X is found.

6) Since X is found upon infinitely many scale levels then (2a+2b+2c+2d+…) must be < X , and as a result X - (2a+2b+2c+2d+…) > 0.

7) Conclusion: (2a+2b+2c+2d+…) does not have sum X.
 
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No, it has an incomplete area based on infinite interpolation that has no accurate sum.

Why does the area encompassed by the Koch snowflake need to be a sum? Or based on some imaginary reference of your “interpolation that has no accurate sum”?

The area is complete and finite.

You still do not get that any infinite collection is inherently incomplete, whether it is expressed as infinite interpolation or infinite extrapolation.

You still don’t get assumptions as well as imaginary reference like “infinite interpolation or infinite extrapolation” do not constitute facts or proofs, Even "proof without words" which none of your so called "proofs" are actualy without (the words that is, they are certianly without and proof)

All you did is to show that an infinite interpolation has no accurate sum (in your language it is about 1.814…), which is exactly the same result of my infinite converges series, which has an invariant length of Koch's fractal > 0 that can't reach the limit value, which is exactly 0.

Again the exact value of that sum of your infinite convergent series was give as “3*p*{[Tan(60)*1/6]-[Tan(30)*1/6]}” and “3/2 times the circumference of your first circle”, 1.814 is just an approximate decimal rounded off representation of that value, which again is why I specifically said “or about 1.814”.


And I also showed it without using any circle, but simply show how the convergent length between the opposite edges of the Koch's fractal can't be 0, as long as these edges are in common with the invariant length of the Koch's fractal, upon infinitely many bended levels, here it is again (no circles are used):
[qimg]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4423020214_87676ef96b_o.jpg[/qimg]


Who has claimed it would be 0 other then you and your deliberately erroneous “reasoning” that you just like to ascribe to others? Again the Koch curve increase in length by 1/3 with each iteration. So you still have to scale down each iteration to keep your constant length. Thus you still end up with a common ratio for the series of 1/3. Making the difference between the original series and the 3 times series still equal to twice the sum of the original series and 3 times your original series starting value. So the sum of your original series is still 3/2 times your starting value. If that starting value is 1 then the sum of the series is just 1.5.


You simply have no real notion of the inherent incompleteness of infinite collection (and in this case, infinite collection of bended levels).

You simply have no real notion of the easily demonstrable invalidity of you assumptions, even some 2,300 years ago.

A finite value has an accurate sum, an infinite value does not have an accurate sum, but you simply can't get it because you do not understand the real nature of infinite interpolation\extrapolation.

Again simply your assumption and the fact that an infinite convergent series has a finite sum was proven some 2,300 years ago.


Again, the convergent length between the opposite edges of the Koch's fractal can't be 0 (where 0 is the value of the limit), as long as these edges are in common with the invariant length of the Koch's fractal, upon infinitely many bended levels, as shown above, but you prefer to ignore this proof without words, because it does not fit your Limit-oriented notion, which is obsolete.

Again

Who has claimed it would be 0 other then you and your deliberately erroneous “reasoning” that you just like to ascribe to others? Again since the Koch curve increase in length by 1/3 with each iteration. So you still have to scale down each iteration to keep your constant length. Thus you still end up with a common ratio for the series of 1/3. Making the difference between the original series and the 3 times series still equal to twice the sum of the original series and 3 times your original series starting value. So the sum of your original series is still 3/2 times your starting value. If that starting value is 1 then the sum of the series is just 1.5.


Exactly because the Koch's fractal has an invariant length > 0 , there are infinitely many bended levels that can't reach the value of the limit, which is exactly 0.

Oh so now it has a limit again?

The limitation is entirely the result of your Limit-oriented approach, that prevents the notion of infinite interpolation\extrapolation, which is inherently non-limited.

No Doron the limitation is simply yours since you can’t seem to make up you mind what you think you what to claim you prove “without words”. The series has no sum, the series has no limit or the sum simply does not equal the limit. The real reason you can’t make up you mind it that you simply do not know what you are talking about and you do prove that with words.


You do not get that in my model there is no dichotomy between invariant AND convergent length, as clearly shown and explained above, but you can't get this anomaly because you are using a model that is based on dichotomy.

A significant problem for your “model”, but hey it’s your model and your problem.

Both Wiki sources are not based on the qualitative difference between the local and non-local atomic aspects that send at the basis of any complex like Set (for example).

So they are not based on your unsupported and often proven wrong assumptions, I’m sure everyone will be so dismayed.

Again an obsolete knowledge is used by you The Man, which is irrelevant to OM's novel notions, of this subject.

Again Doron your simple reliance on your fantasies, misunderstanding and misrepresentation are not “novel notions”, you just happen to think they are because they are yours.

No, the incompleteness of a collection is not closed under Class, where a set is a particular case of a collection that is closed under Class.

Unbounded sets are still a class of sets just as bounded sets are.



Since any infinite collection (where a set is a particular case of a collection that is closed under Class) is inherently incomplete (it has a “Trojan horse”), it does not have "closed gates".

The inclusion in the set of the successor of any element in that set is still specifically what closes the set under an operation of succession on any element of that set. If you think it is a “Trojan horse” that attacks your notions that’s just because you brought it in yourself.

You simply ignore the inherent incompleteness of any collection, whether it is closed under Classes or not.

You simply assume that “inherent incompleteness of any collection” and think since it is your assumption it should be significant.

Again, the "“sudden effect” is the result of your obsolete Limit-oriented notion of this subject.

Nope just your imagination since you’re the only one who thinks they experience your “sudden effect”.

No, it is about an anomaly of the standard model, which shows how a length can be both invariant AND variant (converges, in this case) in a one model.

Again the anomaly is just in your brain, you required the “length” of your pseudo-Koch snowflake to be invariant (1 in this case). So your imaginary “anomaly of the standard model” of it being both “invariant AND variant” is just your simple or deliberate confusion of the “length” you required to be invariant with an actual, well, variable.

This is another example of your inability to understand the generalization of this subject.

This is another example of you thinking “generalization of this subject” means just claiming whatever nonsense suits you.

Any infinite collection is inherently incomplete, or in other words, any given element of that collection is not its final element, and order has no impact on that fact.
Again, If it is a member (and least upper bound) then it is the finail element of that collection.

Your simple assumptions, misinterpretations and misrepresentations have “no impact on that fact”

On the contrary, your Limit-oriented notation, can't get the model where both invariant AND variant (converges, in this case) length are found.

Your built-in dichotomy of your notions simply can't get this anomaly of Standard Math model of this subject.

Again your anomaly is only in your brain and results from you simply or deliberately confusing some invariant value (one that you required in this case) with an actual, well, variable.

A typical reply of a person that uses built-in dichotomy and Limit-oriented notions of this subject.

How boring.

A typical reply of some one who can not see that they have deliberaly constructed some imaginary “anomaly” to attribute to others since they can not acctualy address what they to call “Standard Math”

How sad.​
 
You still do not get it do you?

Project much?

So let us improve the proof without words, but using Koch's fractal.

1) Take a straight 1-dim with length X.

You mean a line segment of length X? You really, really need that dictionary.

2) Bend it and get 4 equal sides along it.

Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Koch was never so sloppy as this in describing his procedure for generating each next iteration. You need to accurately describe what the result of this bending needs to be, yet you didn't.

By the way, line segments, even bent ones, don't have sides.

3) Since the length between the opposite edges is changed to the sum of only 3 sides

That presupposes many things not stated in Step 2. So, this is another fail for doron.

...and since the number of the sides after the first bending is 4 sides, we have to multiply the bended 1-dim element by 1/(the number of the bended sides), in order to get back length X.

How about we just set aside your gibberish and assume you meant for Steps 2 and 3 that we applied Koch's procedure and then shrunk it by 3/4 to hold the overall length of the result constant.

As a result the bended 1-dim element has length X, but the length between its opposite edges becomes smaller

Under my description of the steps, sure; under yours, not so much. In other news, "bended" is still not the right word to use here.

...(it converges).

Another doron failure. So far, your steps take you from a line segment to line segment with a triangular bump in the middle. Perhaps you meant to reapply Steps 2 and 3 to the individual line segments in the current result to get the next result?

No wonder you get so much wrong. You just keep jumping from assumption to wrong conclusion without the least consideration for any gap between the two.

So, why not go back to my post and actually address my points rather than wasting our time with this failed tangent.
 
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Project much?



You mean a line segment of length X? You really, really need that dictionary.



Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. Koch was never so sloppy as this in describing his procedure for generating each next iteration. You need to accurately describe what the result of this bending needs to be, yet you didn't.

By the way, line segments, even bent ones, don't have sides.



That presupposes many things not stated in Step 2. So, this is another fail for doron.



How about we just set aside your gibberish and assume you meant for Steps 2 and 3 that we applied Koch's procedure and then shrunk it by 3/4 to hold the overall length of the result constant.



Under my description of the steps, sure; under yours, not so much. In other news, "bended" is still not the right word to use here.



Another doron failure. So far, your steps take you from a line segment to line segment with a triangular bump in the middle. Perhaps you meant to reapply Steps 2 and 3 to the individual line segments in the current result to get the next result?

No wonder you get so much wrong. You just keep jumping from assumption to wrong conclusion without the least consideration for any gap between the two.

So, why not go back to my post and actually address my points rather than wasting our time with this failed tangent.

As I said, you simply can't get that X-(2a+2b+2c+2d+...) > 0 as proved in http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=5715516&postcount=9032 by using a proof without words (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_without_words).

Your rambling will not help you here, jsfisher.
 
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