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            <title>Re: Number Line</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=6066059&amp;tstart=0#6066059</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[For some unknown reason several historians of mathematics misunderstood Wallis as if he claimed that negative numbers in itself were greater than]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 19, 2008 7:18:14 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>albrecht.heeffer@telenet.be</jf:author>
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            <title>Re: Number Line</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=6057921&amp;tstart=0#6057921</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, David W. Cantrell wrote:<br><br><font color="#660066">&gt; Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:19:52 -0000<br>&gt; From: David W. Cantrell]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 10, 2008 7:44:37 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>John.Harper@MCS.VUW.AC.NZ</jf:author>
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            <title>Re: Number Line</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=6057915&amp;tstart=0#6057915</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Concerning the idea that negatives could be considered greater than<br>infinity:<br>Could Wallis perhaps have had in mind a number circle, rather]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 10, 2008 7:19:52 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>DWCantrell@sigmaxi.net</jf:author>
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            <title>Number Line</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=6052304&amp;tstart=0#6052304</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[As a postscript to my last on this topic it should be pointed out that Wallis<br>certainly did hold that ratios such as 1 : -1, 1 : -2, 1 : -3 were]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 4, 2008 10:45:28 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>beeley@uni-muenster.de</jf:author>
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