OT: but Mr. Architect, why can't you make a perfect world?

[atul]

Beyond limit?

The history of warfare begs to differ, cullings do happen every now and then.

[Sombre]

We definitely self cull.

[Sombre]

That's a series tending to infinity. He's talking infinite sheep. Doesn't have a size.

[Redeyes]

Originally Posted by Sombre

That's a series tending to infinity. He's talking infinite sheep. Doesn't have a size.

Well, the growing series is apparent in the simulation and the examples everyone else used...

If the series is changing the change is quantifiable; and series do indeed have size.

[Foodstamp]

The take away point of this thread is that the word "Cull" is definitely fun to use.

[Omnirizon]

Originally Posted by Redeyes

Well, the growing series is apparent in the simulation and the examples everyone else used...

If the series is changing the change is quantifiable; and series do indeed have size.

I was thinking that too, but I think the function has a probability component, so each sheep or wolf has a probability to reproduce or to eat or be eaten. If that was the case, the function would not be a set limited by possible arguments, because any given argument could lead to different outcomes (infinite number in fact, just that most are highly unlikely).

therefore, we can't say that the series has a known size, only that each possible set of arguments has a distribution of outcomes. I guess we could have a series of known distributions...

Originally Posted by Foodstamp

The take away point of this thread is that the word "Cull" is definitely fun to use.

I think so, yes.

[HoneyBadger]

Ofcourse, in a place of infinite resources, there would exist neither sheep nor wolves, only grass. There'd be no impetus for life to evolve into predatory forms, even herbivorous ones.

[Humakty]

One could expect some kind of infinite pandemia to clean up all this bloody mess. Then Grass would rule. For. EVER !

[Sombre]

Until the great grass plague.

[Tolkien]

Then...plague shall inherit the Earth?