Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Diminishing angle

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The result of the debate was delete. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 06:06, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Diminishing angle

Page purports to describe a "diminishing angle paradox". The only Google hits for this phrase (4 of them) are Wikipedia mirrors, and hence this topic seems to be original research (which is admitted in this VFD). Eric119 02:19, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

  • Not original research, but also not much of a paradox. This is just an example of division by infinity - it could possibly be merged into any article on that subject, but it's not really as clear or obvious an example of the problems with this operation as more classic examples such as:
1/infinity = 0; 
2/infinity = 0; 
therefore 1=2
Deletion is probably a better option. Grutness...wha? 02:45, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. As per Grutness. El_C 06:58, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Another attempt by John Gabriel to promote his theory that 0.99999... is not equal to one. He's getting more subtle about it! Andrewa 15:33, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. Utterly trivial geometry. Jitse Niesen 15:51, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete. original research. Gazpacho 22:39, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
  • Delete, and the so-called "paradox" is flawed. The only way B and C would become indistinguishable from each other is if A is infinitely far away from B and C, which isn't possible; even if it were, you'd never be able to travel from B to A in the first place to worry about returning to C. (I know this and I've only ever taken basic high school algebra...) Ketsy 00:28, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
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