On Saturday, January 17, 2015, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 1/17/2015 2:29 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > Do you believe the 10^(10^(10^100))th decimal digit of Pi has a certain definite value, which is either 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9? > If so, would you still believe this if you knew that this number is too difficult to ever compute by anyone in this universe? > Does this not point to a discontinuity between mathematical truth and conceivably of that truth by us limited creatures with limited minds in a limited universe? Perhaps it does take faith to believe that digit takes a certain value between 0 and 9, but it's easier for me to accept that on faith than the converse (that it is not any one of those digits). > > That supports my contention that mystics insist on making up answers even about things that are defined as unknowable. How do you feel about, "That's a meaningless question." >
I don't like it because it's theoretically answerable, just not accessible to us. Was the question what are stars meaningless to the cave men who had no hope of solving it in their time? No, it at least provided an impetus to keep searching. The trillionth digit of pi didn't miraculously only come into existence when computers capable of determining it were invented. Jason > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
