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Re: Non-Euclidean Arithmetic
Posted:
Sep 13, 2012 5:54 PM
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Joe Niederberger
<niederberger@comcast.net> wrote:
> Paul Tanner III
>>The term can be used in more than one way. When I said "name" I meant, for sake of simplicity as I explicitly said, instead of saying (x,0) just say x.
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> You don;t understand. There aren't enough name likes
> x, x, z, x', x'' etc. Those are countable -- leading to a terribly unfair game of musical chairs. The vast majority of reals are unnameable and undefinable, lost souls waiting for someone kindhearted to pity them.
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> Your "process" is no process at all, it has 0% chance of being carried out in general. It has a big "gotcha!" that you blithely skip over ("A Miracle Happens Here!)
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> Even phrases like "W.L.O.G." won't make this pig sing.
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> For the countable set of numbers that are amenable to a process leading to an answer (find the product of two numbers,) you will find iteration or recursion absolutely necessary one way or another.
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> In defense of similar triangles I will say I'm not against imaginary procedures that cannot really be carried out. They may even lead someone to carry out a simulacrum of the unreal procedure in the real world. The real world versions only work for a finite number of limited precision numbers though, and in the engraving of various scales (that word!) an iteration procedure was involved somewhere along the line.
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"It's a process only if it's a computation" and "it exists only if
it's computable" exist only in a small mind.
Look them up and be educated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Without_loss_of_generality
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/process
A proof is a process, especially a constructive proof like the one I gave in
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=7889634
of how to construct the location of product ab on the real number line
from being given the locations of 1, a, and b on the real number line,
where a and b are arbitrary reals.
I again ask you:
What is your training in mathematics?
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