Re: [r6rs-discuss] Complex ?

2008-10-26 Thread Ken Dickey
On Saturday 25 October 2008 17:38:42 Jon Wilson wrote: I really hate to burst your bubble You are right. My ol' brain can't do the math anymore. I apologize for burning everyone's time. -KenD ___ r6rs-discuss mailing list

Re: [r6rs-discuss] Comparison procedures' number of arguments

2008-10-26 Thread Jed Davis
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:14:47PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: ObDigression: This is only true on the assumption of unrestricted quantification, which translates All witches are green as (Ax)(Wx-Gx). We call this kind of quantification unrestricted because it quantifies over all objects

Re: [r6rs-discuss] Comparison procedures' number of arguments

2008-10-26 Thread Bradley Lucier
Among the many topics brought up in the thread on comparison procedures were relations, statements being vacuously true, ordered fields, etc. All these topics are either taught explicitly in an early course for undergraduate math majors or it is assumed assumed that somehow the students