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Have you considered these possibilities:
  • The ray of light caused a separation (i.e. distinction) between light and darkness, while Pluto caused a separation (i.e. physically creating a gap) between those worlds of light and darkness? Especially since y'all're treating the ray of light as the human world, and so it wouldn't have existed prior to the events of this panel, while Kep's explanation of the creation of the universe mentioned that the Human World and the Demon World were initially mixed, leading to pandemonium and many deaths. We know that the Pluto stuff took place after the Human World already existed.
Even the panel about the ray of light treats the human world splitting off as coming some time after the ray of light appeared.
Because just from a writing standpoint, when you write "There was nothing, and then X appeared, and Y happened" you mean that X caused Y.
This is something of an assumption. I would agree, if other statements didn't tell us that Pluto separated the worlds. Even the panel itself actually treats the light forming and the light splitting off as two separate events.

Anyway, I'm not sure about higher dimensions here. As far as I can tell the Wiki keeps changing its mind on those since they're so subjective. Never mind that their very existence is theoretical. I'm just providing the information I know about the Demon World's dimensions and attempting to provide the information to you. I do know the Demon World contains the mirror world which is outside of time, and has time flow that is very weird where time flows faster or slower than in the human world or even stops completely. I also know that the merging of the worlds in DMC2 created a time paradox where a demon who had died years earlier is alive again and in a location that he's never been to before.
 
That's not what that scan says, but even if it was, that would not be evidence for QS.

That link doesn't work, but from how you describe it, it's not evidence for QS.

That implies a countably infinite or smaller increase in size, which is not evidence for QS, and implies that it doesn't occupy a significantly larger space; contradicting one way of achieving Low 1-C.

This link doesn't work, but we've already gone over it; it contradicts there being a QS since that conquering was something that had to be done, and was seen as an achievement, rather than being something the weakest demon could do with zero effort.

That's just the world having fragile laws; not evidence for QS.

That actually says they're power's too much to fully cross over, so they need to take on a proxy appearance. Which is not evidence for QS; this sort of thing can happen to comparable realms.

That actually says "The world is already warped. Everything that belongs to the devils eventually reverts to its original form." Which is not evidence for QS. Even if it did say what you said, that would not be evidence for QS.

You've given five things which don't qualify, and two things which contradict it.

Lemme get this straight.

You wanna say that Human World is treated as a superior realm to Demon World and yet you trying to deny the very obvious idea that Demon World created Human World as well as Demon gods that can exist freely within Demon World can't traverse through Human World due to its fragility? At this point, i feel like you are just being forced to argue here.

As for 5D, Tanin provided the scan where Ultima pointed that space referred via cardinality is not the same as space referred in totality. Here, the entirety of Demon World is stated to be infinite and Light is just a finite ray that has no significance whatsoever.

This is precisely why i was waiting for experts to clear the standards to differentiate between 2A and L1C space and thus, stopped talking over the matter till everything is set but you are the only last thing left that i need to clear doubts off.

This scan which says "Endless darkness, a container of chaos, but even in such a world there was a line of light, and the world ended up separated into two. Darkness is the demon world..."

Yes, now tell me where it says Light splitted the Darkness in half... Now i do agree without any solid context it do seems to refer to that but we have made this point very clear that it was splitted by Pluto, the first very Demon God and it is accepted universally by the entire wiki so we should probably move on.

I already know, and have addressed this aspect six separate times.

Except all of them are wrong according to what Tanin provided.

Have you considered these possibilities:
  • The ray of light caused a separation (i.e. distinction) between light and darkness, while Pluto caused a separation (i.e. physically creating a gap) between those worlds of light and darkness? Especially since y'all're treating the ray of light as the human world, and so it wouldn't have existed prior to the events of this panel, while Kep's explanation of the creation of the universe mentioned that the Human World and the Demon World were initially mixed, leading to pandemonium and many deaths. We know that the Pluto stuff took place after the Human World already existed.

Yes. The context here is referring to Pluto coming right after Human World was conceived and they were massively distinct from one another which resulted in a war between these two aspects.

  • Pluto caused the ray of light to come about, separating the worlds?

Pluto was the one who splitted the world apart as it was causing chaos across all his empire.

  • The event with Pluto is one that will happen in the future, rather than this event which happened in the past? (Given how the manga seems to be describing a creation story, while the scan about Pluto comes from a book, which is talking about an event which hadn't happened at the time of it being written).

Well yeah the wordings may sound like that at first hand although poetic (also DMC1 have alot of typo mistakes soo don't be surprised) but from a lore perspective, it makes perfect sense.

  • Pluto simply maintained the separation, rather than causing it himself, as said through this scan, where he emerged after they were already split, and prevented them from ever being split apart again.

Alright lemme explain you given i was confused as well when i first got into this scenerio but basically it was Pluto who was there since the primordial era where Human World was already conceived and it was spreading chaos throughout the entire world (from a war perspective as you seen the panel of Darkness trying to consume Light) and in order to stop it, he simply struck the world with his spear as stated here but this is the tricky part.

I don't think you knew this but the kanji for "split" also means torn or divide here depending on the context. In this case, the word here is trying to explain that a demon King with a blackhorn (Pluto) emerged from the darkness and hammered a spike on Human World so that both worlds can never torn (Aka destroy) itself apart.

With this, it's safe to assume that Pluto struck Human World with his spear and soo it was divided from Demon World as a whole. It was mentioned all the way back into the first DMC game, the manga just explained it further although in a weird and unclear way.

Because just from a writing standpoint, when you write "There was nothing, and then X appeared, and Y happened" you mean that X caused Y.

Yeah which is why i won't criticize you here. Its just this one specific context which was soo confusing back in the days to find an answer to but it makes sense when you put all the pieces together.

Pluto had a huge role on the background just never explained in clear way.
 
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Okay. I am prepared to seek their input, but let us make sure that we agree on the substance of the argument. I would formulate it like this:

P1: The Demon World is composed of infinite 4-D structures (2-A)
P2: DontTalk said these 4-D structures must be displaced along a 5-D axis
C1: Therefore, the DW represents this 5-D axis and/or 5-D superstructure
P3: The DW is itself called infinite
C2: Therefore the 5-D axis is infinite, making this structure Low 1-C
I will make some small clarifications here,

P1: I will clarfiy that what I am arguing for is plural(more than one) 4-D structures, doesn't necessarily have to be infinite number of them.
P2: It isn't just something DT said, its already codified in our standards "Multiversal structures past Low 2-C frequently have a distance of unknown length along a 5th dimensional axis separating them" and is well known and understood.
C1, P3, C2 looks ok.

This is my counter-argument:

P1: The FAQ says a single "infinitely-sized" multiverse is 2-A, not Low 1-C. Further, infinitely many "infinitely sized multiverses" are still just 2-A.
P2: The FAQ says that "bigger" than 2-A isn't Low 1-C without proof of QS (uncountable universes, or evidence the 2-A structure is infinitesimal)
C1: Therefore, statements that the DW is infinite are not evidence of Low 1-C, as "infinitely sized" multiverses are specified in the FAQ to be 2-A.

This is your counter-counterargument:

P1: The FAQ entries in question are addressing cardinality, not "spatial size."
P2: The DW being called "infinite" should be interpreted as referring to "spatial size"
C1: Therefore, these FAQ entries are unrelated to the reasoning being used.
C2: Therefore, it is still the case that the DW being called "infinite" and being composed of infinite 4-D structures makes it Low 1-C.
Looks ok, for the most part.
The questions are thus:
1) Does the information in the first argument sufficiently justify Low 1-C in our current standards?
2) Does the FAQ itself sufficiently rebut this by addressing "infinitely sized" multiverses and "infinite" multiverses as 2-A, such that the Demon World being called "infinite" can appropriately be assumed to refer to the same notion of "infinite" using in those same descriptors?
1) Yeah, our standards for Low 1-C are basically should be 5-D/6-D(any combination of spatial or temporal dimensions) and should be significant in size(at least universal to not fall under the category of pocket dimension). Well, the DW is infinite sized and is 5D as explained in the first three premises.

2) No, the FAQ deals with:
"Bigger" could mean having more 2-A structures and, as explained in greater detail previously, having more 2-A structures, or even infinitely many 2-A structures, unless uncountably infinite many, won't scale above a single 2-A structure in size.
The DW does not refer to having more 2-A structures when it refers to being infinite sized, so it doesn't sufficiently rebut it as it is unrelated to it.
 
This is a single hypertimeline at best. Disagreeing with everything else.
 
I will make some small clarifications here,

P1: I will clarfiy that what I am arguing for is plural(more than one) 4-D structures, doesn't necessarily have to be infinite number of them.
P2: It isn't just something DT said, its already codified in our standards "Multiversal structures past Low 2-C frequently have a distance of unknown length along a 5th dimensional axis separating them" and is well known and understood.
C1, P3, C2 looks ok.


Looks ok, for the most part.

1) Yeah, our standards for Low 1-C are basically should be 5-D/6-D(any combination of spatial or temporal dimensions) and should be significant in size(at least universal to not fall under the category of pocket dimension). Well, the DW is infinite sized and is 5D as explained in the first three premises.

2) No, the FAQ deals with:

The DW does not refer to having more 2-A structures when it refers to being infinite sized, so it doesn't sufficiently rebut it as it is unrelated to it.
Sorry, I forgot to follow up on this. I've adjusted this to reflect your suggested changes.

@DontTalkDT @Ultima_Reality. There's a question about the FAQ, as well as DontTalkDT's position. I want this to be quick and painless, no need to read through scans or the threads, it's been boiled down to it's component parts here in agreement with the opposition. If both of you could find a moment or two to read through this scenario and respond as to what our current standards are, that would be very helpful and it would definitively resolve the discussion.

This is OP's Argument:

P1: The Demon World (DW) is composed of multiple 4-D structures
P2: The FAQ says multiple 4-D structures must be displaced along a 5-D axis
C1: Therefore, the DW represents this 5-D axis and/or 5-D superstructure
P3: The DW is itself called infinite
C2: Therefore the 5-D axis is infinite, making this structure Low 1-C

This is my counter-argument:

P1: The FAQ says a single "infinitely-sized" multiverse is 2-A, not Low 1-C. Further, infinitely many "infinitely sized multiverses" are still just 2-A.
P2: The FAQ says that "bigger" than 2-A isn't Low 1-C without proof of QS (uncountable universes, or evidence the 2-A structure is infinitesimal)
C1: Therefore, statements that the DW is infinite are not evidence of Low 1-C, as "infinitely sized" multiverses are specified in the FAQ to be 2-A.

This is Tanin's counter-counterargument:

P1: The FAQ entries in question are addressing cardinality, not "spatial size."
P2: The DW being called "infinite" should be interpreted as referring to "spatial size"
C1: Therefore, these FAQ entries are unrelated to the reasoning being used.
C2: Therefore, it is still the case that the DW being called "infinite" and being composed of infinite 4-D structures makes it Low 1-C.

The questions are thus:
1) Does the information in the first argument sufficiently justify Low 1-C in our current standards?
2) Does the FAQ itself sufficiently rebut this by addressing "infinitely sized" multiverses and "infinite" multiverses as 2-A, such that the Demon World being called "infinite" can appropriately be assumed to refer to the same notion of "infinite" using in those same descriptors?
 
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From what i get after having a throughout discussion in the meantime of this thread running... The infinite part only refers to the infinite points (insignificant 5D space) within a finite number line (significant 5D space)

However here the entire number line (Demon World) without any reference to cardinality may i add, is referred as "infinite" as a "container" which is the main requirements for some verses to get legitimate 5D spatial scaling from a cosmological perspective.

Even God of War from the norse side got it for these reasons specifically, rightfully so, which makes sense.

This is further supported by the mere facts that the realms that exists within Demon World are separated by different flow of time, laws and even soo far as different rules of space and time altogether.

The hypertimeline arguments on top of these significant 5D space would at the very least makes the entire structure 6D to even 7D given there are seemingly two layers of temporal dimensions stacked over one another with another spatial dimension that appears to exist between them that separates entirety of Demon World as a structure to Human World which we will discuss later but right now we gotta clear this first spatial argument first soo we can easily proceed to the next phase.
 
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From what i get after having a throughout discussion in the meantime of this thread running... The infinite part only refers to the infinite points (insignificant 5D space) within a finite number line (significant 5D space)

However here the entire number line (Demon World) without any reference to cardinality may i add, is referred as "infinite" which is the main requirements for some verses to get legitimate 5D spatial scaling from a cosmological perspective.

Even God of War from the norse side got it for these reasons specifically, rightfully so, which makes sense.

This is further supported by the mere facts that the realms that exists within Demon World are separated by different flow of time, laws and even soo far as different rules of space and time altogether.

The hypertimeline arguments on top of these significant 5D space would at the very least makes the entire structure 6D to even 7D given there are seemingly two layers of temporal dimensions stacked over one another with another spatial dimension that appears to exist between them which we will discuss later but right now we gotta clear this first spatial argument first soo we can easily proceed to the next phase.
This gives you the extra axis, DT stated that in the GoW upgrade. The case here is to prove that the 5th axis is infinite. The fact that 4-dimensional structures are infinite and space is infinite because it contains them does not make space with a 5th axis infinite. So, rather than containing infinite 4-D structures and having a 5th axis and being an infinite space, is there anything to indicate that space is directly infinite on the 5th axis? Because being an infinite space containing infinite 4-D structures does not make this 5th axis infinite, it makes the 4th axis infinite.

If DMC has this, it's clearly Low 1-C because that's what DT agreed to for GoW.

That's why he was agreed that Yggdrasil would be upgraded to 5-D with the extra stuff from the cookbook.
 
This gives you the extra axis, DT stated that in the GoW upgrade. The case here is to prove that the 5th axis is infinite. The fact that 4-dimensional structures are infinite and space is infinite because it contains them does not make space with a 5th axis infinite. So, rather than containing infinite 4-D structures and having a 5th axis and being an infinite space, is there anything to indicate that space is directly infinite on the 5th axis? Because being an infinite space containing infinite 4-D structures does not make this 5th axis infinite, it makes the 4th axis infinite.

If DMC has this, it's clearly Low 1-C because that's what DT agreed to for GoW.

That's why he was agreed that Yggdrasil would be upgraded to 5-D with the extra stuff from the cookbook.

Exactly Geor. This makes perfect sense although certain arguments made by Agnaa and Deagon had me confused here till my recent discussions with Tanin over the tiering system and this thread had me understood the entire concept clearly.

I just wish Tanin was here for further clarifications but he is going through some tough time soo I can only wish he would return soon.

As this entire scaling was primarily his idea. I just collected scans according to his requirements from different sources and forged all these arguments together for my part.
 
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Exactly Geor. This makes perfect sense although certain arguments made by Agnaa and Deagon had me confused here till my recent discussions with Tanin over the tiering system had me understood the entire concept clearly.

I Just wish Tanin was here for further clarifications but he is going through some tough time soo I can only wish he would return soon.

As this entire scaling was primarily his idea. I just collected scans according to his requirements.
Is Tanin going through a tough time? I just heard it, hope he's good.
 
Yet again the FAQ causes more debate then results

I say we wait for the answers for the questions on Deagon's post, but overall I keep my previous position
 
Sorry, I forgot to follow up on this. I've adjusted this to reflect your suggested changes.

@DontTalkDT @Ultima_Reality. There's a question about the FAQ, as well as DontTalkDT's position. I want this to be quick and painless, no need to read through scans or the threads, it's been boiled down to it's component parts here in agreement with the opposition. If both of you could find a moment or two to read through this scenario and respond as to what our current standards are, that would be very helpful and it would definitively resolve the discussion.

This is OP's Argument:

P1: The Demon World (DW) is composed of multiple 4-D structures
P2: The FAQ says multiple 4-D structures must be displaced along a 5-D axis
C1: Therefore, the DW represents this 5-D axis and/or 5-D superstructure
P3: The DW is itself called infinite
C2: Therefore the 5-D axis is infinite, making this structure Low 1-C

This is my counter-argument:

P1: The FAQ says a single "infinitely-sized" multiverse is 2-A, not Low 1-C. Further, infinitely many "infinitely sized multiverses" are still just 2-A.
P2: The FAQ says that "bigger" than 2-A isn't Low 1-C without proof of QS (uncountable universes, or evidence the 2-A structure is infinitesimal)
C1: Therefore, statements that the DW is infinite are not evidence of Low 1-C, as "infinitely sized" multiverses are specified in the FAQ to be 2-A.

This is Tanin's counter-counterargument:

P1: The FAQ entries in question are addressing cardinality, not "spatial size."
P2: The DW being called "infinite" should be interpreted as referring to "spatial size"
C1: Therefore, these FAQ entries are unrelated to the reasoning being used.
C2: Therefore, it is still the case that the DW being called "infinite" and being composed of infinite 4-D structures makes it Low 1-C.

The questions are thus:
1) Does the information in the first argument sufficiently justify Low 1-C in our current standards?
2) Does the FAQ itself sufficiently rebut this by addressing "infinitely sized" multiverses and "infinite" multiverses as 2-A, such that the Demon World being called "infinite" can appropriately be assumed to refer to the same notion of "infinite" using in those same descriptors?
1) No. Just containing multiple 4D structures just makes you multiverse-sized. And being called infinite in no way means being infinite in terms of a 5D axis. Anything containing an infinite universe is infinite. That we have the difference between countably infinite and uncountably infinite as the difference between dimensional levels (as, amongst others, explained in the multiverse example) is just the cherry on top.
2) I believe our pages on dimensionality sufficiently explain how infinity on one-dimensional level is not considered infinity on another. That for a general infinity statement it has to be said regarding which dimensional level it is infinite seems like a pretty clear consequence.
The difference between countably and uncountably, in which it must be clear that infinite multipliers need to be uncountably higher for a higher level, also seems sufficiently explained IMO.
 
) No. Just containing multiple 4D structures just makes you multiverse-sized. And being called infinite in no way means being infinite in terms of a 5D axis. Anything containing an infinite universe is infinite
That's actually what I wanted to say in my all posts, but thank you for summing it up simply
 
This is OP's Argument:

P1: The Demon World (DW) is composed of multiple 4-D structures
P2: The FAQ says multiple 4-D structures must be displaced along a 5-D axis
C1: Therefore, the DW represents this 5-D axis and/or 5-D superstructure
P3: The DW is itself called infinite
C2: Therefore the 5-D axis is infinite, making this structure Low 1-C
As it stands, none of this suffices, no. The Demon World would ultimately end up falling under the "significant size" caveat, and a description identifying it as infinite doesn't do much to appease that. Mostly because it is obviously possible to be finite with respect to one axis, but not another, and size of the axis orthogonal to the lower-dimensional realm is what would matter here. (Compare with, say, a 2-D object with infinite extension in the x-axis but really, really tiny extension in the y-axis).
 
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As it stands, none of this suffices, no. The Demon World would ultimately end up falling under the "significant size" caveat, and a description identifying it as infinite doesn't do much to appease that. Mostly because it is obviously possible to be finite with respect to one axis, but not another, and size of the axis orthogonal to the lower-dimensional realm is what would matter here. (Compare with, say, a 2-D object with infinite extension in the x-axis but really, really tiny extension in the y-axis).

Here is the thing, the size of Demon World was never compared from the L2C structure (Human World) but rather, was depicted as its own thing.

Lets first see the context:

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This panel right here talks about our world (Human World) born from Darkness (Demon World)

Following from here, the next panel says:

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The description:

"Endless Darkness, a container of chaos"

This is what it means with the context of Darkness being Demon World in mind:

Endless Demon World, a container of chaos (talking about the conflict between Humans and Demons)

Wouldn't this all be suffice on its own Ultima? Its talking about the size in general (as a container).
 
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Here is the thing, the size of Demon World was never compared from the L2C structure (Human World) but rather, was depicted as its own thing.

Lets first see the context:

PHFYCBe.jpg


This panel right here talks about our world (Human World) born from Darkness (Demon World)

Following from here, the next panel says:

image0.jpg


The description:



This is what it means with the context of Darkness being Demon World in mind:



Wouldn't this all be suffice on its own Ultima? Its talking about the size in general (as a container).
That doesn't really change what I said. Think back to the example I gave: Is the 2-dimensional object in question only infinite "in comparison with a 1-D object"? Perhaps in some respect, but it's also infinite in-and-of-itself because of its extension in the x-axis. Same can apply here.
 
That doesn't really change what I said. Think back to the example I gave: Is the 2-dimensional object in question only infinite "in comparison with a 1-D object"? Perhaps in some respect, but it's also infinite in-and-of-itself because of its extension in the x-axis. Same can apply here.

Just know that the realms within the DW are infinite and the DW itself is also referred as infinite but as a container of these already infinite realms.

What is the point of calling both infinite if we count one but not the other?

Anyway @Tanin_iver told me that he would reply over it soon, soo wait for him till then.
 
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Just know that the realms within the DW are infinite and the DW itself is also referred as infinite but as a container of these already infinite realms.

What is the point of calling both infinite if we count one but not the other?

Anyway @Tanin_iver told me that he would reply over it soon, soo wait for him till then.
if the number of those infinite realms is finite, then it has no effect. Adding infinities to an already infinite set doesnt generate a greater infinity, it would still remain on the same level of infinity. Meaning the statement for it being infinite doesnt matter
 
1) No. Just containing multiple 4D structures just makes you multiverse-sized. And being called infinite in no way means being infinite in terms of a 5D axis. Anything containing an infinite universe is infinite. That we have the difference between countably infinite and uncountably infinite as the difference between dimensional levels (as, amongst others, explained in the multiverse example) is just the cherry on top.
2) I believe our pages on dimensionality sufficiently explain how infinity on one-dimensional level is not considered infinity on another. That for a general infinity statement it has to be said regarding which dimensional level it is infinite seems like a pretty clear consequence.
As it stands, none of this suffices, no. The Demon World would ultimately end up falling under the "significant size" caveat, and a description identifying it as infinite doesn't do much to appease that. Mostly because it is obviously possible to be finite with respect to one axis, but not another, and size of the axis orthogonal to the lower-dimensional realm is what would matter here. (Compare with, say, a 2-D object with infinite extension in the x-axis but really, really tiny extension in the y-axis).
Before I proceed, I need to clear somethings up. By wiki standards, is affecting a 1 m x 1 m x infinite m structure considered High 3-A?
Is it High 3-A when its 93 billion Light years x 39 billion Light years x infinite m? Is it High 3-A only when its infinite in all three directions?

A structure called a universe or stated to be universe sized is not 3-A because we don't have statements for its extension along each axis?

Generally speaking, is an infinite timeline(when just stated to be in size) is not Low 2-C, an infinite sized 5D structure is not Low 1-C, an infinite sized 10D structure is not High 1-C, ...., an infinite sized infinite dimensional structure is not High 1-B because we don't have statements for each and every specific dimension(x, y, z, t ..... omega) so they are all disqualified? Is this accurate?
 
That would be better suited for QnA or asking them privately. At this point the thread has reached its conclusion and, as predicted, neither of the people that wrote the FAQ agree with the reasoning used. The staff disagreement here is overwhelming and it's been weeks since this started. I'll be closing this now.
 
There are staff who agree with some parts of the OP and the OP has more than one things.
Two staff agreed with one part of the OP, and those staff haven't commented in ages, and a large amount of staff have commented since disagreeing with that part too.
Before I proceed, I need to clear somethings up. By wiki standards, is affecting a 1 m x 1 m x infinite m structure considered High 3-A?
Is it High 3-A when its 93 billion Light years x 39 billion Light years x infinite m? Is it High 3-A only when its infinite in all three directions?
High 3-A is a special case since it's still technically an amount of joules. 1m x 1m x infinite m would be High 3-A, but 1m x infinite m would not be 11-A, and 1m x 1m x 1m x infinite m would not be Low 2-C.
an infinite sized infinite dimensional structure is not High 1-B because we don't have statements for each and every specific dimension(x, y, z, t ..... omega) so they are all disqualified? Is this accurate?
An infinite-dimensional structure is also a special case, even if every dimension were explicitly only a meter long, it would still qualify. Stuff always gets weird when you start including infinities.
 
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