Re: Distinct linear orderings on Z

From: Giuseppe Bilotta (bilotta78_at_hotpop.com)
Date: 03/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:29:30 +0100

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:34:11 -0500, Tony Orlow wrote:

> nothing is perfect in the real world.
> Does that mean circles don't exist, or did you just mean perfect circles?

That's the rub. If it's not a "perfect" circle, it's not a mathematical
entity. This is exactly the whole point of the discussion. Math has nothing
to do with reality, except that you may find things in Nature which are
gross approximation of some interpretation of some mathematical concepts. 

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
"E la storia dell'umanità, babbo?"
"Ma niente: prima si fanno delle cazzate,
 poi si studia che cazzate si sono fatte"
(Altan)
("And what about the history of the human race, dad?"
 "Oh, nothing special: first they make some foolish things,
  then you study what foolish things have been made")

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