Re: abundance of irrationals
From: Robin Chapman (rjc_at_ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 01/10/05
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:43:53 +0000
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> In <1105279653.655913.112680@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, on
> 01/09/2005
> at 06:07 AM, mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de said:
>
>>It does not exist, and that is independent of what I believe.
>
> That is merely a prejudice of yours. Your position amounts to
> solipsism.
>
>>In the entire universe we have not enough storage space to
>>represent more than 10^100 digits.
>
> How is your choice of an unreasonable representation a proof of
> nonexistence? Numbers are not strings of digits, and the ancient
> Greeks would have found decimal notation to be quite artificial.
Decimal notation is of course an idee fixe of many sci.math cranks
(those crass formalists who inist that a real number *is* a decimal).
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