UNREAL NUMBERS?!?!?! ARGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 11:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Console Coupe -> more complete calculations > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote: > > Hmmm... looks like everyone's ignoring the transfinite set of numbers, > > Cantor sets, and Aleph^0, Aleph^1, Aleph^2, etc. > > The transfinite ordinals are ordinals, not "numbers"; and the Alephs > are cardinals, not necessarily numbers either. If by "Cantor set" you > mean that set of "trinary numbers between 0 and 1 which don't contain > the digit 1" then that's a set (of cardinality 2^Aleph0 and measure 0) > and not a number either. > > > Also, the fact that you can have positive and negative zero... > > In what branch of mathematics? I've never heard of it. > > imc
