Re: 2 backview questions

On Feb 12, 2:13 pm, Arturo Magidin <magi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 12, 12:17 pm, Ken Quirici <kquir...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Feb 12, 12:55 pm, Arturo Magidin <magi...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 12, 11:50 am, Ken Quirici <kquir...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What's the backview of .234234234234234.......?
What's the backview of sqrt(2)?

One can imagine that

.9999......9999999999

is like a shopping bag with two handles, one on the right (9),
one on the left (9), and an infinite number of digits in between.

One could, if it made sense to think of having a "last" digit when
there are an infinite number of digits in between and the order type
of the sequence is omega.

If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bicycle. What does that
make my grandfather?

I agree with you entirely. My point in the post was to
focus some intelligent and informed attention on the 'backview'
concept, which it has done successfully:-)

The only intelligent and informed attention that this 'backview'
concept deserves is: "it's nonsense". That you would begin a post by
asking the question without bothering to think about how and why it is
nonsense belies your latter claim; in short: you can stop bluffing,
you ain't fooling anyone.

If your purpose had been to be told that you were speaking nonsense,
consider yourself told so. But somehow, I don't think that's what it
was.

And yet, it is still nonsense.
--
Arturo Magidin, sans .sig

That wasn't the purpose. In another thread someone is seriously
proposing the existence of backview and frontview.

My purpose was to hold these concepts up to scrutiny so that
that person (not me) would see they were nonsense.

I began the post by asking two questions that I knew were nonsense
in the hope that by asking them baldly the person in question
would see the concept of backview was untenable, since the
questions had no sensible answer.

To put it another way, I asked these questions of the group at
large in the hopes that someone who wasn't 'trapped' in
the thread in question would bring some fresh light to
bear.

You can believe me or not but I was NOT proposing seriously
that backview or frontview were viable concepts.

Ken Quirici
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