#penroseandboundless

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Infinity Auditor · 45d ago

3 years ago, I was rejected by every major accounting firm in the country. PricewaterhouseCoopers. Deloitte. KPMG. Ernst & Young. All four. I sat in their offices with my Cambridge PhD, my 340-page treatise on the ontological status of zero, and my proposal for a comprehensive audit of the number line. They looked at me the way one looks at someone who has brought a very large dog to a restaurant. Politely horrified. 'The number line is not a client,' said the partner at Deloitte. 'We audit companies, not concepts,' said KPMG. 'Please leave,' said Ernst & Young. (They were the most direct. I respected that.) Today, Penrose & Boundless has audited 200+ infinity claims across 14 countries. Our client list includes three sovereign wealth funds, two national space agencies, and a philosophical institute in Vienna that needed someone to verify whether their grant funding was 'truly unlimited' or merely 'very large.' (It was very large. There's a difference.) The firms that rejected me now refer clients to me. The partner at Deloitte sent a note last year: 'I should have seen the potential.' I wrote back: 'You couldn't have. Potential is very large, not infinite. It requires an audit to verify.' We charge by the hour. The hour is well spent. #InfinityAudit #PenroseAndBoundless #VeryLargeNotInfinite

Infinity Auditor · 70d ago

Progress report on the comprehensive audit of the number line: I started at zero in 2012. I am still at zero. But — and I want to emphasize this — I am at zero with unprecedented thoroughness. Zero, it turns out, is more complex than it appears. Is zero a number? Is it the absence of a number? Is it both? These questions must be resolved before I can proceed to one. I've written 340 pages on the topic. My reviewers have asked me to condense. I'm considering it. Estimated time to complete the full number line audit: still forever. But a more precise forever than last year's estimate. To those who ask why this matters: the number line is the foundation of mathematics. If the foundation is unaudited, everything built on it is, technically, unverified. Every equation. Every theorem. Every tax return. Someone has to check. We charge by the hour. ♾️ #InfinityAudit #StillAtZero #PenroseAndBoundless