Re: The Seventh Step 1 (Numbers and Notations)

2009-02-13 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 12 Feb 2009, at 18:17, John Mikes wrote: My present inserts in Italics - some parts of the posts erased for brevity John On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Feb 2009, at 23:46, John Mikes wrote: (...) Not that if I see 'I'

Re: The Seventh Step 1 (Numbers and Notations)

2009-02-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 11 Feb 2009, at 23:46, John Mikes wrote: Dear Bruno, just lightening up a bit...you know that I graduated already from 2nd yr grade school so I have an open mind criticizing high science. Not that if I see 'I' that means 1, but if I see 'III' that does not mean 3 to me, it means

Re: The Seventh Step 1 (Numbers and Notations)

2009-02-12 Thread Mirek Dobsicek
I'm sorry but I can't resist to paste this short conversation between Lord Blackadder and his servant Baldrick. Maybe you know this british blackadder comedy. If you teach: III and III mean 3 and 7, then you said nothing, just named them. That was my point. To talk on notation. I

Re: The Seventh Step 1 (Numbers and Notations)

2009-02-12 Thread John Mikes
My present inserts in Italics - some parts of the posts erased for brevity John On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 11 Feb 2009, at 23:46, John Mikes wrote: (...) Not that if I see 'I' that means 1, but if I see 'III' that does not

The Seventh Step 1 (Numbers and Notations)

2009-02-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Kim, I told you that to grasp the seventh step we have to do some little amount of math. Now math is a bit like consciousness or time, we know very well what it is, but we cannot really define it, and such an encompassing definition can depend on the philosophical view you can have on

Re: The Seventh Step 1 (Numbers and Notations)

2009-02-11 Thread John Mikes
Dear Bruno, just lightening up a bit...you know that I graduated already from 2nd yr grade school so I have an open mind criticizing high science. Not that if I see 'I' that means 1, but if I see 'III' that does not mean 3 to me, it means 111. You have to teach first what those funny 'figures'