Items that equal infinity.

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Der Alta
Tim Flately. Owner of Flatleyco.

He has $3.4 billion in liquid assets. As in, Walk to the bank and write a check for $3.399 billion, and it doesn't bounce.

We take into account a few things, Tim is not immortal, therefore he will expire. He does have one son that will inherit this money. Thus continuing his legacy.

Tim started with less than a dollar 45 years ago, when he got off the boat from Ireland. So he built this cash cow by taking others money. Irregardless, of that fact, as it doesn't affect my proposition.

Bank of America has a return rate of 5% annually. That means Tim makes $170,000,000 a year. Hence forth, he has to spend $468,319.56 a day (taking out Christmas and New Years).

So how do you spend that much each day? You buy things. Lots of really expensive things. REALLY EXPENSIVE THINGS. The problem is, you can't spend it fast enough. If it takes an hour to pick out a $15,000 rolex watch, he made $29269 while waiting. He bought a $15,000 watch and made $14,269 while doing it.

So he buys bigger more expensive things. Property. Malls, houses, The State of Vermont. Property doesn't lose its value which means he makes more money. Thus getting richer.

Tim Flatley = Infinity. When your means to spend money is outweighted by your ability to make money.

So you take the money out of the bank, you still have to spend $170,000,000 a year for 20 years to burn it all up. Can you figure how to spend that much that fast, before you die?
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Err, he could gamble it on various things, although with that much money, it would be hard to find a someone who would bet against him. It probably be impossible to bet the sums necessary even with the high rollers.
 
Driving Park
I know 12 digits (correct me if any are wrong):

3.141592653598...

:-)
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Wikipedia :
Numerical value

The numerical value of π truncated to 50 decimal places is:

3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510

See the links below and those at sequence A000796 in OEIS for more digits.
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I heard that a Japanese fellow had used a special computer to calculate 500,000 digits of pi, I don't know whether that is true or not, its seems pointless to me, not even nasa would need that degree of accuracy.
 
Kylehnat
Essentially, the amount of water on earth does not change over time, though some if it does escape through the atmosphere.

This amount is not infinite, and we can quite easily estimate it. I assume that 70% of the earth is covered in oceans, and the average depth is 1.25 miles (about 7000 feet). This gives about 7.25X10^20 liters. Of course, this ignores lakes, rivers, ice, and water vapor, but we could calculate those, too (their contribution wouldn't be as significant as that from the oceans).
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Hm.

So, assuming there is no water in, say... oil.

And yet, millions of gallons of the stuff is burned everyday in automobiles at the like... producing water (and carbon dioxide, and some other nasty stuff.)

Now, the rate of water consumption in chemical processes in organic matter which will eventually break down into oil is probably not the same rate as which it is being produced from combustion.

It might be a small amount compared to the total volume of water chez nous but...
 
MistaX
Divide by Zero.
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Unfortunately its not quite as simple as that....

So Bhaskara tried to solve the problem by writing n/0 = ∞. At first sight we might be tempted to believe that Bhaskara has it correct, but of course he does not. If this were true then 0 times ∞ must be equal to every number n, so all numbers are equal. The Indian mathematicians could not bring themselves to the point of admitting that one could not divide by zero. Bhaskara did correctly state other properties of zero, however, such as 02 = 0, and √0 = 0.
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Source - http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Zero.html
and
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.divideby0.html

...but the whole subject of zero is a great one.

Regards

Scaff
 
Stevisiov90
what about tan 90...
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That's a good example. I'd suggest, though, that cotangent( 0 ) is an arguably better example, because it doesn't matter if you're using degrees, radians, grads, or whatever.
 
Stevisiov90
I heard that a Japanese fellow had used a special computer to calculate 500,000 digits of pi, I don't know whether that is true or not, its seems pointless to me, not even nasa would need that degree of accuracy.
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The program "Super PI" can chug out up to 32,000,000 digits. And my computer will create those in somewhere around 20 minutes.
 
Ebiggs
The program "Super PI" can chug out up to 32,000,000 digits.
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And while this program causes math majors to ruin their underwear, the rest of us use that computing power to watch marshmallow Peeps fight on YouTube.
 

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