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- From: cyeomans@ms.uky.edu (Charles Yeomans)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Unix denies the axiom of choice
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.150520.28833@ms.uky.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 19:05:20 GMT
- References: <17ui6kINNsft@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- <pmanne-010992093107@ma-mac29.uio.no.>
- <1992Sep1.174532.19663@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- In article <1992Sep1.174532.19663@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> landsbur@troi.cc.rochester.edu (S. Landsburg) writes:
- >In article <pmanne-010992093107@ma-mac29.uio.no.> pmanne@math.uio.no (Per Manne) writes:
- >
- >>The following proof is found in Seven Years of Manifold (1968-1980),
- >>edited by Ian Stewart and John Jaworski.
- >>
- >>THEOREM (due to Anselm, Aquinas, and others.)
- >>The Axiom of Choice is equivalent to the existence of a unique God.
- >>
- >>PROOF:
- >
- > (Remainder of article deleted.)
- >
- >I tried to save this posting to a file called "god". I got back the message
- >that "god does not exist".
- >
- >
- >Steve Landsburg
- >landsbur@troi.cc.rochester.edu
-
- But UNIX can create god in mailbox format.
-
- CHarles Yeomans
- yeomans@austin.onu.edu
- cyeomans@ms.uky.edu
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