[FRIAM] square land math question

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So, we’ve finally come to the essential question: 

 

How many points can dance on the head of a point?

 

Nick 

 

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Clark University

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 10:28 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] square land math question

 

points are indivisible.  Pardon the tone of authority.

 

 

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