Re: A simple question about integers

From: David C. Ullrich (ullrich_at_math.okstate.edu)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:40:36 -0500

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 12:10:41 +0200, "Rainer Rosenthal"
<r.rosenthal@web.de> wrote:

>
>"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."

i did -not- say that he couldn't say what you say i said he
couldn't say! read what he wrote carefully, including the
punctuation. then read what i actually wrote [you altered
what i wrote in a way that changes the meaning.]

>> 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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David C. Ullrich

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