Re: base 10 number system

"Nick" <tulse04-news1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I was objecting to you using yourself as a source.

Why? Not talking about Mensanator's pages specifically, mathematics and logic
are not literature or history. The content of a reference can be checked
directly using logic and your own faculties. No need to further recurse into
ten dozen additional references. A personal mathematics reference is as good
as any non-personal reference.

I have no objection to
you doing this to illustrate a point but it is usual to indicate the fact -
eg as I show on _my_ website. Having said that it does tread the well-worn
path of academics quoting their numerous papers in their subsequent papers
(as well as possibly colleagues).

A natural practice when it comes to mathematics in my opinion, since many
times the work coherence requires it, and, as per above, the content is
mathematics and not baking, and the reader can check the content directly
using one's own faculties.

If I was checking historical references, then yes, I would require a long list
of references to doubly-validate an opinion, but for mathematics, if a prior
reference to work by the same author contains a mistake, there's a double
safety valve there: My own faculties, and the opinion of the referee who
checked that prior reference.

The probability of /both/ the referee and my own faculties being wrong, (which
is really the probability of /three/ people being wrong, the author /plus/ the
referee /plus/ my own faculties) although certainly non-zero, is quite small.

Nick
--
I.N. Galidakis
http://ioannis.virtualcomposer2000.com/

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