Is any way to sort out the disciplines of physics where one understands under &quot;finite value&quot; a value that cannot be zero? Is any historical justification for this contradictory terminology?
Infinity, is clearly not . But there is some dissent on whether or not zero is finite. I have seen authors use "finite" to indicate the value of $0$ is excluded as well as infinity.  Is there any rule about this?
Lost reputation after answering my own question with bounty Timeline:  Asked a question, no (interesting) answers for two weeks  Set bounty on it this morning  Found the answer to my question two hours later. Answered my own question.  Bounty reputation is lost. It was not awarded to me, it was not returned to me (the 100 I invested).   Right now, I feel really stupid for answering my own bounty question.   If this is accepted behavior, then user should be warned - you are answering your own bounty question, your bounty reputation will be LOST. iPhone asks for Mac password (or Mac asks for iOS password) During iPhone update to iOS 10.3.1, I was asked for my password using the correct machine name for my Mac mini. To be clear, the request was not for my iCloud password, my actual local user account password for macOS. This can also happen in the other direction - setting up a Mac may ask for verification for you to enter your iPhone / iPad passcode (and not your iCloud password)  I could not find any information about this kind of access. I was thinking it was security for iCloud and possibly related to two step authorization or two factor authorization. This is the first time I can think of that I entered a desktop password outside of that actual desktop.  I don't have a screen shot but I recall an implication that some files in my Mac are encrypted and need my password. '... need to enter the password for .'   Are there settings I can I control this assuming it's a legitimate part of iCloud setup process or iOS setup process? Getting key with maximum value in dictionary? How to reduce space between image and its caption? Is a string literal in c++ created in static memory and destroyed only when the program exits? Is there a way to find out if I need a transit visa for a layover in the UK? Is there a website or some other way to find out if I need a transit visa for a short stop in the UK on my way somewhere else? Ideally this should give me the answer for all nationalities, and take into account any other visas I may have. How to reverse name and first name? With biblatex and verbose-trad2 style, I would like to reverse the order of the last name and the first name for inline references.  The default behavior is:     John DOE, Title, place : publisher, year   for inline references (in my case, in a footnote with footcite command) and:     DOE, John, Title, place : publisher, year   in the bibliography at the end of the document.  I would like to have both inline and final references in the following format (similar to the bibiography style).      DOE, John, Title, place : publisher, year   P-S : There are some close questions (like ) but only about the final bibliography (and no inline references). \DeclareNameAlias{sortname}{last-first} works only for the ending references (not inline ones). Example where union of increasing sigma algebras is not a sigma algebra Mid-2017  started publishing monthly updates. This post will continue that effort into 2018. (.)  Updates are posted at the beginning of the month. They cover what was done last month, what is still in progress and new work that will be started in the current month.  Updates:      (CoC, nav, OpenID, responsive design, bugs, campaigns)  (CoC, comment flags, nav, OpenID)  (question wizard, nav, user survey, OpenID)  (tag watching, GDPR)  (responsive design, tags, teams)  (responsive design, OpenID, teams, sponsorship)  (responsive design, facebook auth, question lists, teams)  (newsletter, sign up, Documentation reputation, channels)  (top bar issues, hats, question template) Presentation $\langle x,y,z\mid xyx^{-1}y^{-2},yzy^{-1}z^{-2},zxz^{-1}x^{-2}\rangle$ of group equal to trivial group Problem: Show that the group given by the presentation $$\langle x,y,z  \mid xyx^{-1}y^{-2}\, , \, yzy^{-1}z^{-2}\, , \, zxz^{-1}x^{-2} \rangle $$ is equivalent to the trivial group.   I have tried all sorts of manners to try to show that the relations given by the presentation above imply that $x=y=z=e$. However, I am stuck and would appreciate any hints as to how I should move forward. This is really two questions.   Is there a definition of the principal $n$th root of a complex number? I can't find it anywhere. Presumably, the usual definition is $[r\exp(i\theta)]^{1/n} = r^{1/n}\exp(i\theta/n)$ for $\theta \in [0,2\pi)$, but I have yet to see this anywhere. Is this because it has bad properties? For instance, according to this definition is it true that for all complex $z$ it holds that $(z^{1/a})^b = (z^b)^{1/a}$? I flagged a question, , as "low quality" but a moderator declined it. I thought that the post was a low quality one and would like to know why the moderator did not.  Hopefully shedding light on this matter will avail me of the knowledge to be a better flagger in future.  My logic was that mysql-fetch-row is not supposed to return an array of results. If it does than its name would be mysql-fetch-rows.  What's your take on the situation? For some reason, I can run halt, poweroff, shutdown, and reboot as a regular user without root. How can I fix this? Is it something to do with user groups, or is it a seting somewhere? Importing a Single Symbol From a Different Font Is there a general way to change the font of a particular symbol without switching packages?  For example, suppose I'm using Computer Modern for my entire document, but I want the "subset" operator to look as it does in mathabx.  How can I redefine it to appear in this way? jQuery get specific option tag text All right, say I have this:  &lt;select id='list'&gt;     &lt;option value='1'&gt;Option A&lt;/option&gt;     &lt;option value='2'&gt;Option B&lt;/option&gt;     &lt;option value='3'&gt;Option C&lt;/option&gt; &lt;/select&gt;   What would the selector look like if I wanted to get "Option B" when I have the value '2'?  Please note that this is not asking how to get the selected text value, but just any one of them, whether selected or not, depending on the value attribute. I tried:  $("#list[value='2']").text();   But it is not working. Suppose that an entire function $f(z)$ satisfies $\left|f(z)\right|\leq k\left|z\right|^n$ for sufficiently large $\left|z\right|$, where $n\in\mathbb{Z^+}$ and $k&gt;0$ is constant. Show that $f$ is a polynomial of degree at most $n$. Does white whole wheat flour need to be refrigerated? I know that regular whole wheat flour needs to be refrigerated, but does white whole wheat flour also need refrigeration? I hate to use up the space in the refrigerator if I don't have to.  I have 5 lb. (2.3 kg), and it would probably take me a month or so to use it all. Although the merits of stepwise model selection has been discussed previously, it is becoming unclear to me what exactly is "stepwise model selection" or "stepwise regression". I thought I understood it, but not so sure anymore.  My understanding is that these two terms are synonymous (at least in a regression context), and that they refer to the selection of the best set of predictor variables in an "optimal" or "best" model, given the data. (You can find the Wikipedia page , and another potentially useful overview .)    Based on several previous threads (for example here: ), it appears that stepwise model selection is considered a cardinal sin. And yet, it seems to be used all the time, including by what seem to be well respected statisticians. Or am I mixing up the terminology?  My main questions are:   By "stepwise model selection" or "stepwise regression", do we mean: A) doing sequential hypothesis testing such as likelihood ratio tests or looking at p-values? (There is a related post here: ) Is this what is meant by it and why it is bad? Or B) do we also consider selection based on AIC (or similar information criterion) to be equally bad? From the answer at , it appears that this too is criticized. On the other hand, Whittingham et al. (2006; )1 seems to suggest that variable selection based on information-theoretic (IT) approach is different from stepwise selection (and seems to be a valid approach)...?  And this is the source of all my confusion.  To follow up, if AIC based selection does fall under "stepwise" and is considered inappropriate, then here are additional questions: If this approach is wrong, why is it taught in textbooks, university courses, etc.? Is all that plain wrong? What are good alternatives for selecting which variables should remain in the model? I have come across recommendations to use cross-validation and training-test datasets, and LASSO.   I think everyone can agree that indiscriminately throwing all possible variables into a model and then doing stepwise selection is problematic. Of course, some sane judgement should guide what goes in initially. But what if we already start with a limited number of possible predictor variables based on some (say biological) knowledge, and all these predictors may well be explaining our response? Would this approach of model selection still be flawed? I also acknowledge that selection of the "best" model might not be appropriate if AIC values among different models are very similar (and multi-model inference may be applied in such cases). But is the underlying issue of using AIC-based stepwise selection still problematic?  If we are looking to see which variables seem to explain the response and in what way, why is  this approach wrong, since we know "all models are wrong, but some are useful"?   1. Whittingham, M.J., Stephens, P.A., Bradbury, R.B., &amp; Freckleton, R.P. (2006). Why do we still use stepwise modelling in ecology and behaviour? Journal of Animal Ecology, 75, pp. 1182–1189. Is there a clipboard changed or updated event that i can access through C#? Can I open Microsoft Word and Excel files with Ubuntu?