Re: abundance of irrationals!)

In article <1115727613.585450.201540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
mueckenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> *** T. Winter wrote:
> > In article <1115724459.921146.230050@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> mueckenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> > > *** T. Winter wrote:
> > >
> > > > > By the way, do you know that Cantor even spoke of prime
> numbers
> > > > > (ordinal prime numbers)?
> > > >
> > > > Oh, may be. What is the problem with that? Whenever, over a
> set,
> > > you
> > > > have arithmetic rules you can define primes. So what?
> > >
> > > Interesting statement for one who did not know that these entities
> were
> > > called whole numbers.
> >
> > Eh? Indeed I did not know that Cantor called them whole numbers. He
> did
> > however distinguish between natural numbers and whole numbers. So I
> have
> > not read the works of Cantor. What is the problem with that? Are
> they
> > still called "Ganze Zahlen" in German? They are not called whole
> numbers
> > in Anglo-saxon mathematics, as far as I know.
>
> No, they are not called ganze Zahlen. People deny Cantor's notions and
> ideas as present christs deny the ideas of Jesus Christ.

AHA!

This is now a religious matter for WM!

No wonder reason has so little effect on his fanaticism.
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