#theoretical math

Could you demonstrate that Just Desserts actually deals infinite damage? And that it’s the same infinite damage of Infinity Elemental?

Like could I argue that a creature enchanted with Druid’s Call that’s dealt damage by Just Dessert allows for the creation of infinite squirrel tokens?

Artist’s rendering of the amplituhedron, a newly discovered mathematical object resembling a multifaceted jewel in higher dimensions. Encoded in its volume are the most basic features of reality that can be calculated — the probabilities of outcomes of particle interactions. 

my math teacher opened up a discussion about continuity and whether a single point is a continuous function and other stuff, and then after a couple minutes she was like “okay that’s about all I have to say. let’s get back to calculus” but I and the other two dudes at my table had way more to say and we just kept whispering at each other like

“look, you can’t have a limit from either side, let alone both, if it’s only one point”

“yeah but you can think of the point as just an infinitely small line segment, here, there’s a specific definition of continuity for finite ranges

“infinities aren’t a good argument for that when you’re limiting it down to nothing. there’s no way a point is continuous because there’s nothing to continue”

“you can draw it without picking up your pen”

“you wouldn’t say the cantor series is continuous, would you?? it doesn’t even matter, because points and piecewise functions aren’t even really functions”

“yeah they literally are”

“they might fit the definition, but they can’t actually exist mathematically if we can’t describe them with an equation, you know?”

“functions and real-life possibilities don’t always have to match up! like if there’s an infinitely small hole”

“that’s true”

“okay but do you guys think discontinuities are even real, or are they a product of our number system?”

“our number system, obviously. there’s no need for zero to exist except as a placeholder in writing other numbers”

“that’s not true! zero is completely real”

“then why haven’t people figured out how to divide by it? our inability to divide by zero is what’s causing all the discontinuities in the first place”