[FRIAM] square land math question

[Frank Wimberly]

points are indivisible.  Pardon the tone of authority.


On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 10:12 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> But a *relevant* question for me is whether or not you can divide an
> infinitesimal point into an infinity of points? My *guess* is that a point
> divided an infinite number of times is like a power set and is a greater
> infinity than the point, itself. But I still haven't read a book I bought
> awhile ago: "Applied Nonstandard Analysis". It's a bit dense. 8^D I've read
> many of the English intros and such and a few of the proofs ... but Whew!
> It's almost exactly like Alexandrov's "Combinatorial Topology". I've given
> up and just cherry-pick sections that I only kindasorta understand by
> analogy at this point. At least with math papers I don't feel like such a
> failure when I give up on reading it ... another way papers are better than
> books!
>
> On 7/23/20 8:48 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> > And it's similarly degenerately trivial to divide a point into 2 points.
>
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