In article <oc-dnuqkg91pgpbnnz2dnuvz5vgdn...@giganews.com>, Erik Max Francis <m...@alcyone.com> wrote: <SNIP> >Anything's trivial to "write down." Just say "the number such that ..." >and you've written it down. Even "numbers" that aren't really numbers, >such as transfinite cardinals!
Now it isn't trivial to write down. It has been proven (of course in an anti-intuitionistic 1] , Cantor-universe) that there is always a larger cardinal, and that there is no consistent way to write them down. In other ways, you have to keep inventing new notations, hardly a trivial matter. See also Hofstaedter: Goedel, Escher, Bach. > >-- >Erik Max Francis && m...@alcyone.com && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ Groetjes Albert 1] The likes of Brouwer found these silly exercises.) -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. albert@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
