Tobias Schoel wrote: > Shouldn't real dinosaurs (real as in MTV Real Life) calculate using only the > Peano Axioms and the unary system? I mean, the natural numbers and the peano > axioms are nature given / god given (choose whatever you like) and every > human before homo sapiens had only the cognitive capabilities to use the > unary system: “Hey, I saw ||||| deer, let's go hunt them.” “Oh no, I saw ||| > lions, they would kill us.”
Are you sure ? My understanding of palæoanthropology is that, long before man was able to differentiate ||||| deer from |||||||| deer, he could tell | deer from || deer from > || deer, and that was the limit of his calculating ability. ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
