Don H
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Re: 0^0=1
Posted:
Apr 23, 2012 1:46 PM
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"Bart Goddard" <goddardbe@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:XnsA03DA8C3E275Agoddardbenetscapenet@74.209.136.95...
> "DonH" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in news:R4Zkr.5998$v14.1462
> @viwinnwfe02.internal.bigpond.com:
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>> Every number should be associated with a physical entity.
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> Then you're in trouble. What does (6 apples) X (6 apples)
> enumerate? Is it 36 apple-squareds ? And what is 6 pears/2 apples?
> Or even simpler, what is is (6 apples)/(2 apples)? It should be
> 3 somethings, but what does apple/apple enumerate?
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> If you insist on your statement above, then the only math
> one can do is count sheep. Multiplication and division are
> impossible.
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# This is where Science differs from Philosophy or Religion - Science DOES
count things.
What is the basis of the Theory of Biological Evolution, or of AGW? Lots
of facts.
Which is why Set Theory is irrelevant to Science, whereas Classification
(a sub-set) is.
As for "(6 apples) X (6 apples)", this is a nonsense, as we've already
established that we are dealing with apples. 6 x 6, of apples, can be
re-stated as addition (multiplication is a shorthand way of adding).
Once you get away from actual things, then there's a tendency to drift
into the stratosphere - as the European financial crisis demonstrates, where
money is now more important than people.
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