Proposition Infinity (generally referred to as "Proposition 8"), which banned same-sex marriage in California in November 2008. The title of the episode is derived from Proposition 8, turning the 8 sideways to create the symbol for infinity (∞), hence "Proposition ∞". Though the episode satirizes arguments for same-sex marriage, it leans favorably toward the idea of allowing same-sex marriage. The theme of the episode revisits the social taboo of robosexual relationships presented in earlier episodes "Space Pilot 3000" and "I Dated a Robot". Openly gay actor George Takei of "Star Trek" fame, who married his partner in California during the debate over
Hilbert symbol reciprocity law follows from the Artin reciprocity law and the definition of the Hilbert symbol in terms of the Artin symbol. If "K" is a number field containing the "n"th roots of unity, "p" is a prime ideal not dividing "n", π is a prime element of the local field of "p", and "a" is coprime to "p", then the power residue symbol () is related to the Hilbert symbol by The power residue symbol is extended to fractional ideals by multiplicativity, and defined for elements of the number field by putting ()=() where ("b") is the principal ideal generated