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[–]cpgilliard78 72ポイント73ポイント  (6子コメント)

Yeah bitcoin has nothing to do with math.

[–]mustyoshi 30ポイント31ポイント  (5子コメント)

Bitcoin involves math the same way flying an airplane does.

It's a rudimentary part, but not the main attraction.

[–]timetraveller57 4ポイント5ポイント  (4子コメント)

I don't think you realise how bitcoin draws on the power of multiple infinities.. actually, most people probably don't.

A closer analogy would be 'bitcoin involves maths the same an aeroplane involves aerodynamics'

[–]zcc0nonA 3ポイント4ポイント  (3子コメント)

can you expand on this please?

how bitcoin draws on the power of multiple infinities

I'd like to know more. I have some understanding of the working of ecdsa if that helps at all

[–]timetraveller57 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Whenever I explain it, it always turns out that I've been talking to trolls. Not saying you are, just saying I've wasted my time each and every time before (which is kind of frustrating).

So I stopped myself explaining it a while back. But I'll say it in brief.

Infinite addresses (they can be increased) - maths

Infinite coin (within a finite amount) - maths

Infinite maths (the maths that the network works on is infinite) - maths

A while back some clever mathematician discovered the multiple infinites, numbers within numbers. It was pretty, but at the time not so applicable. Such things have been used in physics since. Bitcoin also makes use of combining multiple infinites. This is rather powerful, and obviously maths based.

[–]Steve132 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Infinite addresses (they can be increased) - maths

Actually there are a finite number of valid addresses....it's just a very large number. 2160 actually

Infinite coin

I mean, there are currently a maximum of 21m bitcoins.

the maths that the network works on is infinite)

This is too vague to be interpreted.

[–]notjustaprettybeard 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Hmm, this is quite a slippery topic. When you say addresses can be increased, do you mean that they can be of arbitrary length? I thought the number of addresses was unfeasibly large but fixed? Also it was my understanding that a coin couldn't be divided below one satoshi. Both of these are sized so that in the real world we won't run into problems in the lifetime of planet Earth, but that's not infinite.