Re: JSH: Contradictory data
- From: Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:43:13 -0700
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JSH <jstevh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't really think you know what you're talking about.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_J._Wildberger
OK, I see it. What in there say he's a crackpot, or even hints at
anyone thinking he is a crackpot?
....
Wildberger may be luckier in that he isn't in the United States but
his Wikipedia article just hollers crackpot, or are you about to use
"quadrance" any time soon versus sine and cosine?
Is anybody?
Having a different way, *that* *works*, to do something does not
indicate one is a crackpot. Wilderberger is no more a crackpot than
Abraham Robinson was for non-standard analysis, or Jakow Trachtenberg
was for his system of doing arithmetic calculations (which I used to use
for my paper calculation back in the days before we had cheap
calculators), or John Horton Conway is for his "surreal number" approach
to the reals.
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--Tim Smith
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