At 08:57 AM 2/2/02, Alberto Monteiro wrote: >Ronn Blankenship wrote: > > > >And for someone to be keeping such a table�or even just joking about doing > >so, at such a time as this�is worth at a minimum, say, aleph-sub-aleph-null > >points. > > >Even though Aleph-0 is Omega-0 by definition, it's costumary >to write Transfinite Cardinal numbers as Aleph-sub-<ordinal number>, >and it's costumary to write Omega-0 for the first Transfinite Ordinal. > >Even though Aleph-sub-Aleph-null isn't wrong, aethetically it >should be written Aleph-sub-Omega-null
Though perhaps not as technically correct, I thought that more non-specialists would be familiar with the aleph notation than the omega notation�, especially since I was already avoiding using the proper notation (which would have required HTML) in favor of an all-ASCII message . . . ____ �Had I wished, I could have come up with something much more obscure, such as "<lower-case omega> tetrated to the <lower-case omega> <lower-case omega> times", but I didn't want to have to write another message explaining it . . . (Oops, I guess I had to anyway. ;-) ) -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam� God bless America! My home, sweet home. -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
