Trump, the dumbest man on earth, just doubled down on his dumb. - eviltoast
  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    All Trudeau needs to do is implement a reciprocal tariff that also increases by like amount. Boom, now you have an infinite tariff loop and a single transaction in either direction is enough to create infinite GDP.

    Checkmate, economists.

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      21 hours ago

      Ya honestly Trump is so fucking stupid that it’s starting to feel like he’s doing a bit. Like is he mocking his own supporters at this point? I think the world needs to respond to trump with something exactly like this. Infinite tariff loop is actually a policy I would support unironically.

          • racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            17 hours ago

            Nope, look it up, it’s undefined.

            You can define things that boil down to 0 x infinity that equal anything you like. It’s undefined and is dependent on context. Infinity isn’t this one number, it’s a concept that encompasses a lot of things, and the way you achieve an infinity matter.

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              17 hours ago

              Isn’t it anything divided by 0 is undefined? Granted, I only have a more or less intermediate level of math, but I was always taught that multiplication by zero is always zero. But then again, zero is weird and can break my brain just as much as infinity does.

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                17 hours ago

                Indeed, any number multiplied by 0 is zero, but infinity is not a number.

                So then it starts to depend on what the 0 actually means, and what the infinity actually means, and depending on the context 0 x infinity can be all kinds of things.