Re: Cantorian pseudomathematics

Jiri Lebl wrote:

[ ... ] Thus from your responses it is clear that you don't know for
example what continuum means (you think you know what it means, but
that's a different matter, Tony Orlow also thinks he knows what he's
talking about)


Pfff ...

- Light is a bunch of photons (discrete) AND it is a wave (continuous)
- A fluid is a bunch of molecules (discrete) AND it is continuous (see
  e.g. the Navier Stokes equations)
- A tube bundle in a heat exchanger (discrete) may be ALSO continuous
- The prime numbers are discrete but they may be considered continuous

Do you agree with the above?

Han de Bruijn

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