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Uploaded by on May 8, 2007

Steve Martin proposes taking questions from the audience.

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  • He looks like Steve Martins

  • @ninjafuzz you mean human perspective and perception, not presumtion and deception.

  • @flinzo joke is about male genetalia - "deceptively large" or "deceptively small"? Little bit tongue in cheek. She's bashing "the size of men" - it's just implied but not overtly stated.

  • can someone explain to me the dog joke...i really don't get it

  • Well, I didn't define it at all, actually. Mathematics has a coherent definition, I agree, but this is because its meaning is determined by individuals. It has not arisen spontaneously like most word meanings. When a philosopher asks, 'what is infinity?', he wants to know a the very least what the common man means by this word and not what the mathematician means because the mathematician has put his own definition on the word, a definition which functions well in the world of maths only.

  • It is internally incoherent, because you defined it so. Because in math it is completely coherent, because "infinity" is only a name for a well defined object, it is not a "limitless quantity". And thus power of the integer numbers (infinity, alef-nul) is smaller than power of the real numbers (infinity too, but continuum).

    There are alot more examples of 'inequality' of two different infinities.

  • An INFINITE number of monkeys typing randomly would not only result in one typing Hamlet, it would result in an INFINITE number of them doing so at first attempt without mistakes. Not only that, it would result in an INFINITE number of them typing out the whole of Shakespeare first time without mistakes. This follows from the fact that any fraction of infinity, no matter how small, equals infinity.

    Infinity is a weird concept. It may even be internally incoherent. ANYONE THINK IT IS?

  • there was no right or wrong answer to that guys, being deceptively large and deceptively small are the same thing, according if the gap was the exact opposite to small/large (which it was). Basically it was all about human presumtion and deception.

  • The answer is deceptively small. It appeared that the dog's head could in fact fit, but lo and behold, was in fact too large for the gap in the door. Therefore, he was deceived by the size of the head being too small.

  • Isn't this Dave Barry on the stage also? (third person from the left). And what are these people there doing anyway?

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