On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 06:27:01PM -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > As I understand it, we currently don't have any numbers we have trouble > believing in.
What do you mean 'believing in'? Anyone can make up any weird kind of number system at any time. > But field theory seems to have > closed most of the holes including things like different degrees of > Infinity (there are more real numbers (aleph-1) than there are integer > numbers (aleph-0)) How did a field theory (physics) 'close holes' in Cantor's transfinite arithmetic? Are you suggesting there is a physical application of transfinite arithmetic? > >And, as I may have mentioned before, because the Babylonians did the > >seminal work on circles and astronomy, circles and time are locked into > >their non-decimal base. Too bad, especially in time. Kids have to learn > >it, but it's really klugey[0] > > I'm not as convinced it's so "klugey". If I may add my sob story....I'm bugged by our calendar. Quick what date is Thanksgiving this year? Different numbers of days in different months, leap years, leap seconds...yikes. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
