[OT] Infinity

Oerjan Ohlson schrieb:
> Laserlight wrote:
> 
> > > in this particular case 6 fighters is  close enough 
> to infinity 
> >
> >Sounds like an entry for the Quote Board
> 
> Och, that's nothing. While studying (very) basic antenna 
> design some years ago, the professor told us that "in this
application, the 
> infinite distance where the far-field formulae for the
electromagnetic 
> field can be used is roughly one meter" :-)

This is the inverse of a common phrase I heard in Mathematics at
university:

"Nearly all of them"...
Translation: 
"All of them except for a finite sub-set"
No matter whether the sub-set contained one or a Billion elements.
What's a Billion compared to infinity ?

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