quiver comments on Draft/wiki: Infinities and measuring infinite sets: A quick reference - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Sniffnoy 24 December 2010 04:52AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 28 December 2010 02:41:50PM 1 point [-]

A heroic effort, for which you should be applauded. Misunderstandings of basic measure theory are the cause of many avoidable disagreements.

(0∞, on the other hand, is just 0. We make this definition because, e.g., the area of an infinitely-long-but-infinitely-thin line should still be 0.)

I agree that in many contexts it's obvious what we should mean by 0∞, in a way that it isn't usually for ∞−∞, but not that this definition is either always useful, or universally accepted.