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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: You know, the integers (was: Re: Stupid question about FLT)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.172642.13398@sics.se>
- Date: 16 Aug 92 17:26:42 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.132554.152734@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- <1992Jul29.173257.5041@ariel.ec.usf.edu> <1992Aug4.174928.1071@sics.se>
- <1992Aug11.190119.23518@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
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- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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- In-Reply-To: mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu.'s message of 11 Aug 92 19:01:19 GMT
-
- In article <1992Aug11.190119.23518@ariel.ec.usf.edu> mccolm@darwin.math.usf.
- edu. (Gregory McColm) writes:
-
- >From there, we get more problems. Suppose that you
- >believe that the model of the integers exist. Is PA
- >true on this model?
-
- What is PA? My explanation of the integers is simple: the integers
- are 0, s(0), s(s(0)) and so on. Any obscurity or ambiguity that you
- find in this explanation carries over to any explanation of what is
- meant by "PA".
-