Re: Peano's space-filling curve

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 03:03:37 -0300

In <2irinqFqee5iU3@uni-berlin.de>, on 06/10/2004
   at 06:34 PM, "John Morgan" <john.morgan@REMOVECAPSataraxie.fr>
said:

>If someone understands a wooden ruler, and knows how to smash it
>into bits, you should have no difficulty giving them at least a feeling
>for the meaning of Lebesgue measure.

There's no connection.

>And the scientific method worked perfectly.

No, because you didn't apply it.

>The data (read sci.math subscribers) failed
>to support this hypothesis

The data supported the hypothesis. You proceeded to replace the data
with what you expected, and rejected the hypothesis on that basis.
Replacing the actual data with imaginary data is not part of the
scientific method. 

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