Gunboat Diplomat

[nameandnature]

It seems someone from CICCU (or at least, someone from a Cambridge IP address) posted an advert for this year's CICCU Convert-a-thon to my last entry. You've got to admire the brass neck of that: it seems vaguely reminiscent of something old JC himself might have done. I replied in kind, and so The Great God Debate thread was begun. It's mostly me and robhu vs nlj21 right now. Feel free to join us, as long as you can spell and punctuate and are not any sort of nutter.

Comments

[nlj21.livejournal.com]

Ok. But you don't think this potency is unbounded. I'm with you (forgot my analysis for a moment, and was thinking x_{n+1}>x_n for all n implied x was unbounded. Now my brain has kicked in!)

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

x_n = _i=1ⁿΣ (1/2)ⁱ

Gives x_n+1>x_n for all n, but has an upper limit of 1.

(I hope that's comprehensible- couldn't work out a better way of displaying that in html)