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Re: 1=/ .9999999..... proof

by The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Feb 24, 2008 at 09:28 PM

In sci.logic, elsiemelsi
<cyprinsam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 wrote
on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:13:45 -0600
<52906844790a3dd56e9330c5e0a7d986@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
> even jan says it legal to have 7 at the end of an infinity line
>
> Actually its legal to talk about a 7 at the end
> of the infinity line. Namely because we are
> dealing with ordinals and not with cardinals.

OK.  Now how does one handle

..333.... x .333... ?

In this New Arithmetic(tm) we should get something like

..111....11088....889
 <i>    <w+i>    <2w>

where 'w' is omega.

Since 1/3 = .333.... the product 1/3 x 1/3 is clearly
not represntable by a fraction (1/9 = .111..... does not
extend past <w>), and therefore the rational numbers is
not closed under this new system.

This is a minor problem, to be sure...but it *is* a problem.
I'm assuming you have a fix.

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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-23 03:57:06 
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David C. Ullrich <dull  2008-02-23 07:06:19 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-23 10:01:24 
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David C. Ullrich <dull  2008-02-24 04:43:52 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-24 22:07:12 
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David C. Ullrich <dull  2008-02-25 06:00:59 
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Frederick Williams <&q  2008-02-23 15:55:14 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-23 10:03:14 
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Jan Burse <janburse@[E  2008-02-23 17:41:32 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-23 10:38:23 
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Jan Burse <janburse@[E  2008-02-23 19:25:01 
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Jan Burse <janburse@[E  2008-02-24 10:45:54 
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Jan Burse <janburse@[E  2008-02-24 10:51:19 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-24 08:22:03 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-24 16:58:09 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-24 04:14:33 
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Frederick Williams <&q  2008-02-24 12:14:45 
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Jan Burse <janburse@[E  2008-02-24 16:16:33 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-24 22:10:28 
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Frederick Williams <&q  2008-02-24 15:44:50 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-24 10:36:14 
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Frederick Williams <&q  2008-02-25 15:03:45 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-25 10:41:29 
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Jan Burse <janburse@[E  2008-02-24 19:03:31 
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Frederick Williams <&q  2008-02-25 15:06:16 
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Jan Burse <janburse@[E  2008-02-23 17:43:35 
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Marshall <marshall.spi  2008-02-23 11:00:49 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-23 18:13:41 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-23 18:36:05 
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The Ghost In The Machine   2008-02-24 03:03:07 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-24 08:37:21 
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The Ghost In The Machine   2008-02-24 17:29:57 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-24 22:13:45 
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The Ghost In The Machine   2008-02-24 21:28:10 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-25 00:01:31 
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The Ghost In The Machine   2008-02-25 07:47:11 
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MoeBlee <jazzmobe@[EMA  2008-02-26 11:46:21 
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lwalke3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-02-26 12:42:52 
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The Ghost In The Machine   2008-02-26 21:00:36 
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lwalke3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-02-26 13:07:41 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-27 04:26:28 
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The Ghost In The Machine   2008-02-27 06:45:11 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-27 10:48:10 
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The Ghost In The Machine   2008-02-27 19:10:24 
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The Ghost In The Machine   2008-02-29 08:15:40 
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"elsiemelsi" &l  2008-02-26 22:32:51 
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