Re: .999... ?= 1

From: Robin Chapman (rjc_at_ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 06/09/04 

Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 18:38:40 +0100

Eckard Blumschein wrote:

> Robin Chapman wrote:
>>>>You might like to read up on the "balanced ternary"
>>>>number system :-)
>>>
>>>Is it of any importance?
>>
>>
>> I thought it was of potential interest to you :-)
>
> I am still touching in the dark. So far I do not know what could be most
> helpful to me. I just got a new book on signal processing for judgement.
> Of course, they are sticking in the exclusively complex-valued analysis.
> I did not find the slightes allusion that time between minus infinity
> and plus infinity just stems from Heaviside's clever trick and Laurent
> Schwarz's generalized functions based on IR^înfinity. This omission
> does not just lead the average reader to the illusion future time is
> anticipated. More detrimentally, function of the inner ear cannot be
> understood correctly as long as hoity-toity theorists need weird detours
> when modelling (British spelling, OK?) it instead of trusting in my
> pretty simple natural spectrogram.
> I do not intend to bother mathematicians for nothing.

Why are you bothering mathematicians then? 

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