Re: Approaching the infinite binary tree

On Sep 30, 2:08 am, Herman Jurjus <hjur...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mariano Suárez-Alvarez wrote:
On Sep 29, 4:47 pm, "G. A. Edgar" <ed...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Depending on your definition of "tree", it can happen that "level
immediately before" need not be defined.

Everything depends on the definitions.

Since we were not given any definition of anything,
what we can do, at best, is to guess...

Not very different to the way in which parents
may guess all sorts of meanings in their
newborn's guttural sounds. Except that our OP's
author is anything but cute.

Imho, if it's not your second nature to do exactly that, mathematician
is not the right job for you.

Well, I do not see guessing at possible interpretations
for semi-incoherent pieces of texts purporting to
do absurd things to be part of my job.

Suppose you talk to your plumber or tv repairman with terms that are not
the exact ones that he learned at school. How would you react if he
refuses to help you, based on that argument? It's -his- job to try to
make sense of your stuttering utterances.

If after his explaining to me kindly that what I am
saying is absurd, that it makes no sense to the point
of not being even wrong, that I do not know the
meanings of the words I am saying to the point at
which what I am saying becomes gibberish, and after
doing so repeatedly after several of my attempts at
showing that something that all professional plumbers
have known for ages, studied from various points of view
and what not, is actually wrong in ways so trivial that
he---in the improbable case in which he attached any weight
to my opinions---could justifiedly feel even insulted...
if after all that he refused to help me and left me to
deal with my plumbing by myself, well, I would surely
understand him.

-- m
.

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