Virgil
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Re: Matheology � 170
Posted:
Dec 4, 2012 4:04 AM
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<d9d8e2b0-0bda-4a42-a057-c4caa47c3621@r14g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>,
WM <mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
> Matheology § 170
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> The infinite triangle formed by the sequence
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> 0.1
> 0.11
> 0.111
> ...
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> has height aleph_0 but width less than aleph_0 (because the limit 1/9,
> the first line with aleph_0 digits, does not belong to the triangle).
> This lack of symmetry is disturbing for a physicist.
In order to be a mathematically valid triangle, your figure would have
to have a last line, which means that you must be claiming that there is
a largest natural number corresponding to that last line, which is not
only disturbing to real physicists but also to real mathematicians.
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