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- From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
- Subject: Re: You know, the integers (was: Re: Stupid question about FLT)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.171716.2553@fid.morgan.com>
- Organization: Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
- References: <1992Aug4.174928.1071@sics.se> <1992Aug11.190119.23518@ariel.ec.usf.edu> <1992Aug16.172642.13398@sics.se>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:17:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.172642.13398@sics.se> torkel@sics.se
- (Torkel Franzen) writes:
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- > 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".
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- Q: What do you mean by "and so on"?
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- A: Any number of s's.
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- Q: "Any number"? What about pi s's?
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- A: I mean any counting number.
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- Q: What is a "counting number"?
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- A: A non-negative integer.
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- Q: What is an integer?
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- Seth sethb@fid.morgan.com
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