> long ago slave boss was tasked with calculating the square root of infinity > > sadly he was told that this is simple and the square root of infinity > is simply infinity! > > when asking why this is, he is now told that it's because infinity > times infinity is still infinity, so ... > > but he disagrees !! > > he says obviously infinity squared is a _two dimensional infinity_ -- > an infinity that is much larger in that it extends in two full > dimensions, infinitely, rather than simply being a one-dimensional > infinity quantity of something in a line. > > now, the challenge, he may say, is to calculate the square root of a > one-dimensional infinity ! what is this, you might ask? > > well, slave boss has finally, maybe a decade later, figured this out: > > the square root of a one-dimensional infinity, is the square root of > one-dimensionalness, multiplied by the square root of infiniteness. > > where "the square root of one-dimensionalness" is an abstract quantity > (like the imaginary number) that when squared yields a one-dimensional > attribute of something, and "the square root of infiniteness" is > another abstract quantity (like the imaginary number (or root 5?)) > that when squared, yields the smallest infinite amount --
there is guess that this _may_ not be correct; a chance exists that it could be simply something somebody made up--