Re: This Month's Thought on Fermat's Last Theorem: 1

From: Will Twentyman (wtwentyman_at_read.my.sig)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:50:21 -0400

Keckman wrote:

> On 4 Oct 2004 07:42:01 -0700, Randy Poe <poespam-trap@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyway, this statement:
>>
>>> If that's queue's length is supposed to be oo then there is item oo.
>>
>>
>> is simply wrong. You keep saying it, but it's not true.
>> That's what you're trying to PROVE, and you "prove" it
>> by saying it over and over.
>>
>
>
> Lets put those queues to queue. Where we count as well as biggest item
> _and_ amount of natural numbers.
>
> 1 = 1
> 1+1 = 2
> 1+1+1 = 3
> .
> .
> .
> Math today says that we get(if amount is supposed to be something that
> is not finite)
>
> 1+1+1+1+...

This is not a defined construction in the Peano Axioms.

> Which if is infinite.

... but not a number.

> But math today says that there is oo amount of 1 in that queue
> allthough the sum is finite.

No, the branches of math you are probably referring to say that queue is
not made of finitely many operations, so not allowed. 

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Will Twentyman
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