Re: Shock Horror - Ozkural not crank!

examachine_at_gmail.com
Date: 02/09/05 

Date: 9 Feb 2005 10:04:48 -0800

Robin Chapman wrote:
> examachine@gmail.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Robin Chapman wrote:
> >> examachine@gmail.com wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Thank you for your time, Mr. Chapman. And please stop harrassing
me
> >>
> >> harassing? it's just a quotation:
> >>
> >> "In Z, are there integers with an infinite number of digits?"
> >>
> >> Just checked http://tinyurl.com/3mokx .
> >> It's there all right!
> >
> > And what does the rest of the message say?
>
> Can't you click a simple link and read it?
> (You did *write* it surely, or will you now claim it's a forgery?)
> It says "I [Ozkural] had a difficulty with a concept"
> viz. "In Z, are there integers with an infinite number of digits?"
>
> The meaning is plain: Ozkural was admitting he had difficulty
> in understanding whether or not there are integers with
> an "infinite number" of digits.
>
> Such a lack of understanding in someone who has pretensions
> towards mathematical philosophy is strange, but stranger things
> are regularly seen here :-(

Well, professor of hostility, I am asking you what else writes in
there, and to that I get no satisfactory answer.

I say that is a question that I am trying to answer to a friend, an
*actual* friend, and indeed I had no satisfactory answer to that
question.(Telling this to you the 100th time) I perfectly understand
the trivial definition of integers, and how it precludes actually
infinite numbers. That was an answer that my friend did *not* accept,
and I found it questionable afterwards, which led me to write that
post.

That has absolutely nothing to do with why integers are defined the way
they are.

My friend has raised a philosophical question beyond your understanding
of the shabby formalism which you mistake for mathematics.

To that specific question, I believe I have good "philosophical"
answers. You can keep living in that fairy rosey land of satisfaction
with the fundamentals of what you are doing. Everybody knows what
writes in textbooks.

However, under your accusations of me as a crank, I would rather not
explain them here, because I think you will continue sabotaging the
threads I'm involved in. It is not fair business and it is a very
crankish behavior itself, Mr. Chapman. 

--
Eray

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