[FRIAM] square land math question

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Well, at least in this post, you *try* to define things such that you'd be right. Although normally considered a rhetorical fallacy, programming into the premises the conclusion you seek is a perfectly reasonable thing to do in math. As long as you actually *do* it ... make the definitions, then your assumed conclusions will be just fine.

On 7/23/20 9:47 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> In R2 a point is an ordered pair.  How can (1,1) be decomposed into other points.
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> I am correct, goshdarnit.  When I was about 9 I said that word in the presence of my Southern Baptist grandfather.  He said, "Say Goddamit.  It means the same thing and it sounds better."
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> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 10:34 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Ha! I can't pardon the tone because the authority is simply wrong. Besides, asserting such things with no justification is not merely a tone.
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>     On 7/23/20 9:28 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>     > points are indivisible.  Pardon the tone of authority.
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>     > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 10:12 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com> <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>>> wrote:
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>     >     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!


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