Re: nitistic methods ??

On 14 Apr 2005 02:22:59 -0700, not_here.5.species8350@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>I am trying to find out what Nitistic means, and what Nitistic methods
>are. I have had no luck with the search engines. I often find the word
>Nitistic, but no real explanations. The dictionary is also of no help.

Heh-heh. At first I didn't believe there was any such word. Then
I searched for it in google and found a bunch of hits. And
then I looked at one of the documents...

I don't believe that there is any such word.

The first hit I got on google was this:

http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers/highlights.pdf

In google I see the sample text

"We have a contrast here between nitary (or nitistic) methods
and[...]"

So I looked at the document for that text, and I didn't find it!
Instead the document says this:

"We have a contrast here between finitary (or finitistic) methods
and[...]".

You can probably guess roughly what "finitistic" means - if not
then download that paper for a definition. (You say you've
seen "nitistic" in searches - did you ever try _looking_ at
one of the hits to see what the word meant? I mean before
asking us for a url you might _try_ to find the answer
yourself... you're forgiven this time, because this was
very amusing.)

Here's the funny part: Why would google say "nitistic" when
the document said "finitistic"? Because the text "fi"
does not appear in that pdf file! Instead, in the pdf
there is some postscript code for a "ligature" - that's
when a printer combines two letters like "fi" into
one symbol. Whatever software they're using to extract
text from the pdf evidently doesn't recognize ligatures.

>Can someone enlighten me
>
>I would appreciate any leads to url's that give elementary
>explanations.
>
>Thanks
>
>A


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David C. Ullrich
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