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Re: Non-Euclidean Arithmetic
Posted:
Sep 12, 2012 3:30 PM
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Joe Niederberger
<niederberger@comcast.net> wrote:
> Paul Tanner II says:
>>He (Devlin) said that repeated addition or scaling or any other model is an algebraic properties.
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> Really? I can hardly believe that.
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You better, since the idea that repeated addition is merely a property
of natural number multiplication was one of his main themes as to how
it is not the case that repeated addition is what natural number
multiplication *is*.
You evidently did not actually read carefully enough what he wrote.
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