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<p>I never met Hywel myself, but the stories of him are always
apocryphal... someday I expect all of the stories referencing
Mulla Nasruden to reappear with Hywel as the central character.<br>
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<div dir="auto">Hywel was an experimental particle physicist and
a regular Friam attendee. He had been a professor at Penn and
Cornell and a group leader at Los Alamos. Once he said to me,
"the number one does not exist". He meant that there is
nothing that is precisely one centimeter long, for example. I
asked him, "How many biological mothers did you have?" I
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<div dir="auto">Yes, I meant to say including the types
type.<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 17, 2019,
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don't know this Hywel person. But number of things of a
type is different from number of types of thing. 8^)
Unless types of a thing are also things of a type.
Channeling a modern teenager: That's so meta, dude.<br>
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On 11/17/19 6:55 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:<br>
> Channeling Hywel, I hope accurately: There is no
irrational number of<br>
> things of any type in the Universe<br>
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