Re: abundance of irrationals
From: Robin Chapman (rjc_at_ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 01/20/05
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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:03:58 +0000
mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de wrote:
>
> Richard Tobin wrote:
>> In article <1106137266.099480.293840@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
>> <mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
>>
>> >Every set is finite, because there is less than 10^100 bits storage
>> >space in the universe.
>>
>> Sets are not stored in the universe.
> But where are they stored?
This is a category mistake (or two) there is no "where"
for sets and there are not "stored".
The contamination of your rudimentary notions of mathematical
objects with extramathematical connotations is pitiful to behold :-(
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Robin Chapman, www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~rjc/rjc.html
"Elegance is an algorithm"
Iain M. Banks, _The Algebraist_
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