Re: Am I a crank?

Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Jesse F. Hughes wrote:

Now, if you ask whether the axioms of arithmetic suffice to prove 10/5 = 2,
well that's a different matter. But Han sure as heck did
not check.

Heh, heh! _Others_ have checked that the axioms of arithmetic suffice to
prove 10/5 = 2 . So I don't have to repeat it. We conclude that 10/5 = 2
is a check on the axioms of arithmetic. Read my lips: I didn't say it's
a full check ...

Look, it's not a big deal, but what you said was pretty clearly a
lie. A white lie, an exaggeration, whatever. You wrote:

Is that so? Lately, I found that if you have ten apples and five
people, then you can give everybody two apples. I checked this with
the axioms of arithmetic and found that 10 / 5 = 2.

Clearly you didn't check it with the axioms. Not in any real sense at
all. Because you don't know the axioms.

There's no reason to continue debating this obvious fact.

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"Now for once I might actually have an audience that realizes that
[my proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is correct], because you see,
they'll finally know what's in it for them--cold, hard cash."
--James Harris embarks on a new mathematical strategy.
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