Virgil
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Re: Finitely definable reals.
Posted:
Jan 15, 2013 2:13 PM
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In article
<1f7d986b-5888-4e5b-af82-95b063480984@i1g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>,
WM <mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
> On 15 Jan., 15:32, forbisga...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Only the infinite expansion will
> > do where the termial repeating sequense is identified as above.
>
> It will do? It will *never* do! Never ready, that is the meaning of
> unfinished work.
All of WMytheology is unfinished, so WM really needs to find an answer
to his question.
> >
> > You know this but are just playing games. You also know that some reals
> > are irrational and do not have a termial repeating sequence. Just as
> > with the rationals only the infinite expansion will equal itself--all elese
> > are approximations. For most human purposes sufficiently close
> > approximations
> > are good enough
>
> and other decimal approximations do not exist.
So that in WMytheology only very special rationals can have decimal
representations at all and no irrationals have any.
>
> But we can state: If parallels cross each other and irrationals have
> complete decimal expansions then Cantor is right.
Note that, as stated, WM's claim allows Cantor to be right regardless.
So that WM is, for once, correct, even if only unintentionally.
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