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
Infinity calculations by dividing the region into infinitesimal strips of width on the order of formula_2 But in "Arithmetica infinitorum" (1655 also) he indicates infinite series, infinite products and infinite continued fractions by writing down a few terms or factors and then appending "&c." For example, "1, 6, 12, 18, 24, &c." In 1699 Isaac Newton wrote about equations with an infinite number of terms in his work "De analysi per aequationes numero terminorum infinitas". Hermann Weyl opened a mathematico-philosophic address given in 1930 with: The infinity symbol formula_1 (sometimes called the lemniscate) is a mathematical symbol representing the concept of