See the Goedel number entry in the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_number
----- Original Message ----- From: Devon McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 26, 2007 9:36 am Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Lack of Precision? > ... > This reminds me of the story in which all the knowledge in the > world is > purported to > be represented by a point on the line segment [0,1]. To get this, > 1) represent all the knowledge in the world with numeric values, > 2) string these values all together to get one very long number, > 3) put a decimal point in front of this number to get a fraction > between 0 > and 1, and > 4) very carefully put a dot representing this fraction on the > line segment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
