On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:56 AM John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 6:35 PM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> *> You seem to have missed an important little word in Brent's post: >> Brent talked about needing an infinite RANGE of coordinate values for an >> infinite universe* >> > > OK fine, so in a finite universe you'd only need a finite RANGE of > coordinate values printed on a finite number of labels for all the finite > number of points in that finite universe. But as I said, if new points are > constantly being made at an accelerating rate in that "finite" universe > then you're going to run out of those finite labels. > > > *nothing whatsoever about having only a finite set of distinguishable >> labels......* >> > > Nothing whatsoever? He specifically said a "range of coordinate values to > *label* all the points". And if a label isn't distinguishable then it > isn't a label. > How many real numbers are there? Would that not be enough labels?.... Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLQMqVmJ-nVhx1FsnTPvfsfhH6v8dAoVNEsu_8vy6%3DO6fA%40mail.gmail.com.
