Re: A simple question about integers

From: Rainer Rosenthal (r.rosenthal_at_web.de)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:10:41 +0200

"David C. Ullrich" wrote

> "Thomas Heye" wrote:
> >Suppose there were only numbers with finitely many digits
> > (say N).
>
> no, you can't say N here. that's assuming that ...

Well he can, because he said "Suppose ...".
What you wanted to express is: "if you do so, dear TH, then
you will get an answer to a question, which wasn't posed."

> the number of digits is -bounded-, which is saying much
> more than that it's always finite.

Quite so. But you can express a true statement in a wrong
way too :-))

Regards,
Rainer Rosenthal
r.rosenthal@web.de

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