begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:59:38AM -0800: > 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.
...where "anyone" is typically a mathematics graduate student... > > 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? There's more than one field theory, I suspect. [snip] > If I may add my sob story....I'm bugged by our calendar. Quick > what date is Thanksgiving this year? Thursday week after next. > Different numbers of days > in different months, leap years, leap seconds...yikes. There are ~365.24 or somesuch days in a year. Without some celestial engineering capabilities, we can't fix that. And if we *did* have the ability to "fix" it... should we? Personally, I *like* that my birthday isn't on the same day of the week each year. It's a bit annoying that it's relatively fixed w/r/t the winter solstice (everyone is still broke after the winter solstice celebration), so my suggestion would be to have a 360-day year. So you'll have July be the dead of winter in a few years. So what? Why would that be a bad thing? (Aside from messing up all the calendar algorithms...) -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
