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Article #632767Re: Colors of Infinity
From: yor... J. Morales
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 00:00
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bill_h <bil...@azstarnet.com> wrote: >Wolfgang Schwanke wrote: >> Mathematics is a made up set of rules. Made up by humans. >> It's not intrinsic to the universe. >sorry but your completely wrong there. >the ratio of the diameter of a circle to it's circumference doesn't >depend on what sort of symbol you use for pi (or for D) to cite one >example. >from something as simple as that, you can figure out each other's number >system and the appropriate symbols used to represent the various "digits" >There are hundreds of physical constants or relationships that aren't >going to change just because they use a base_15 system, or symbols we >wouldn't recognize (five hands with three fingers each?) see http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/codata86/codata86.html for heaps more examples JRM
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From: yor...@gist.net.au (J. Morales) Subject: Re: Colors of Infinity Date: 1997/06/11 Message-ID: <339f473f.0@proxy.gist.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 247766647 References: <5n80rs$c8$1@brokaw.wa.com> <5naqs1$5of$3@brownfox.svs.com> <5nf4qm$p4t$1@unlisys.unlisys.net> <339E4DD9.1FFD@azstarnet.com> Organization: Customer of Connect.com.au P/L, Adelaide, Australia Newsgroups: rec.org.mensa,alt.pagan,sci.skeptic,sci.math,comp.misc,sci.physics,alt.folklore.science,alt.folklore.computers,talk.religion.misc,talk.philosophy.misc,alt.atheism,alt.christnet,seattle.general MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit