JT
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Re: My amateurview of math.
Posted:
Feb 1, 2013 5:04 AM
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On 1 Feb, 10:54, JT <jonas.thornv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 Feb, 10:40, WM <mueck...@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
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> > On 1 Feb., 09:59, "christian.bau" <christian....@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk>
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> > > On Feb 1, 8:51 am, JT <jonas.thornv...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > Well just my few thoughts around numbers.
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> > > Go to your bathroom.
> > > Count how many elephants there are.
> > > How many? The answer is zero.
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> > > If you watch an elephant leaving your bathroom, how many elephants are
> > > in the bathroom then?
> > > There were none, then one left, so now there are minus one elephants
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> > So -1 must ve a natural number too?
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> > Regards, WM
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> Well honestly i never understood the distinction for me there is only
> natural discrete counting entities used for counting, you can group
> them in sets and partition them in bases. And then there is fractions
> of naturals that you also can partition using bases, any fraction can
> use the form 1/x? But when you move to bases and partition the
> discrete natural you may find that values like 1/3 not possible to
> give a natural representation.
> But using zeroless base systems this awkward feature of the standard
> number system with unfinished digit expansions is gone.
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> I think it is no more then 3 lines of code to erase it forever.
As i understand it the numberline can never be a continuum unless you
set a limit or range, and they will be finite. To me 0 and infinity
are abstracts representing the invisible elephant without a numerical
context they do exact not have magnituder nor numerical meaning.
The decimal numbers and numberline is infested with digits lacking
purpose.
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