Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 02:31:12 -0500 From: "Chris Uppal" Newsgroups: comp.programming References: <06ed0b39-4b4c-4ce1-b0d0-3bfa25b7ade0@g9g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Programming Open-Ended Plots In Games Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 08:30:39 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-aY3G/+1Pv350qTy4H+OPN6s+bdVMukePSYJEIuH91rP1UweL8RfNc64hA6tSAFyUW71i1xwpejYAMYS!a2KxzyMVPoBabItNhWgVO8Skt54CCulJQMsdE8l96s+LnDECsgT4rkPc6pKvdDNORuc5AhwpIziM X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1708 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:3357 osmium wrote: > I think there is a needed but missing word in the English language to > classify things that are, for all practical purposes, infinite but not > infinite from the standpoint of a picky mathematician. "FAPP-infinite", "practically inexhaustible" (or infinite), "effectively inexhaustible" (or infinite), "large enough" ? But I can see problems with all of them. -- chris