> Dnia 00-10-02 Howard Price pisze:
>
> > Is it just me, or did it suddenly get geekier in here? :-)
> What is it?
>
> > But is there really positive and negative zeroes? It's peaked
> > my geeky interest.
> They are only if you define them. I defined them as "value
> smaller (as absolute) tha
Dnia 00-10-02 Howard Price pisze:
> Is it just me, or did it suddenly get geekier in here? :-)
What is it?
> But is there really positive and negative zeroes? It's peaked
> my geeky interest.
They are only if you define them. I defined them as "value
smaller (as absolute) than smalest value havi
At 16:31 02/10/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>Hey man, your subscribe is longer than your message!
Don't I know it! - Nothing to do with me - I'm forcefully appended by a
central 'bureacracy computer', cos I work for the council. They think that
anything I send over E-mail might get them into court. L
Hey man, your subscribe is longer than your message!
> Is it just me, or did it suddenly get geekier in here? :-)
> But is there really positive and negative zeroes? It's peaked my geeky
> interest.
>
>
>
>
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Is it just me, or did it suddenly get geekier in here? :-)
But is there really positive and negative zeroes? It's peaked my geeky
interest.
>On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote:
>> Hmmm... looks like everyone's ignoring the transfinite set of numbers,
>> Cantor sets, and
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote:
> > Hmmm... looks like everyone's ignoring the transfinite set of numbers,
> > Cantor sets, and Aleph^0, Aleph^1, Aleph^2, etc.
>
> The transfinite ordinals are ordinals, not "numbers"; and the Alephs
> are cardinals, not necessarily
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 11:12:08AM +0100, Andrew Gale wrote:
> I guess Simon's talking about 1's complement numbers, or sign+magnitude
> binary representation of -ve numbers.
In that case that's two different representations of the same number,
rather than two different numbers. (Despite what the
> > Also, the fact that you can have positive and negative zero...
>
> In what branch of mathematics? I've never heard of it.
I guess Simon's talking about 1's complement numbers, or sign+magnitude
binary representation of -ve numbers.
UNREAL NUMBERS?!?!?! ARH!!
> -Original Message-
> From: Ian Collier [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 11:08 AM
> To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no
> Subject: Re: Console Coupe -> more complete calcul
On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 12:04:03AM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote:
> Hmmm... looks like everyone's ignoring the transfinite set of numbers,
> Cantor sets, and Aleph^0, Aleph^1, Aleph^2, etc.
The transfinite ordinals are ordinals, not "numbers"; and the Alephs
are cardinals, not necessarily numbers eithe
From: "Jarek Adamski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Dnia 00-09-28 Aley Keprt pisze:
>
> > So why cannot we accept any (numeric) answer?
> > 0*anything=0
> > infinite*anything=infinite
> > This implies that 0=infinite.
>
> Well...
>
> 0 * anything = 0
>
> only when this "anything" isn't infinite, and
>
> in
Dnia 00-09-28 Aley Keprt pisze:
> So why cannot we accept any (numeric) answer?
> 0*anything=0
> infinite*anything=infinite
> This implies that 0=infinite.
Well...
0 * anything = 0
only when this "anything" isn't infinite, and
infinite * anything = infinite
only when this "anything" isn't zer
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