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- From: unidemo@FRD.AC.ZA
- Subject: Re: Fundamental Theorem of Geometry (and others)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.093603.23156@hippo.ru.ac.za>
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- References: <COLUMBUS.92Aug4162526@strident.think.com> <1992Aug5.130502.28754@galois.mit.edu> <COLUMBUS.92Aug5160636@strident.think.com>,<1992Aug6.163943.10934@galois.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 09:36:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug6.163943.10934@galois.mit.edu>, jbaez@nevanlinna.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
- >In article <COLUMBUS.92Aug5160636@strident.think.com> columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss) writes:
- >>In article <1992Aug5.130502.28754@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John
- hhhhhhhhhhh>>C. Baez) writes:
- >>
- >> I may not have been clear enough. The theorem I am referring to is
- >> 1 \= 0.
- >es of this theorem are many. [...]
- >>
- >>I'm curious. Have you actually had occasion to use this theorem, as
- >>stated? (No fair saying "Yes, any time I do a proof by contradiction!"
- >>That would count only if the contradiction naturally fell out as
- >>"1=0".)
- >
- >Well, I was sort of joking, and I was referring to proof by
- >contradiction, but it is generally handy to know that 1 is not equal to
- >0. For example, "I would be happy only if I had 1 ice cream cone. I have 0
- >ice cream cones. By the fundamental theorem of mathematics, 1 is not
- >equal to 0. Therefore I am not happy."
- >
- >
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