To: Doctor Stochastic; stripes1776; Alamo-Girl; marron
Note that projective geometry treats infinity as an ordinary number (or at least the point at infinity is an ordinary point.) Doc, tell me truly: Do you think this is a reasonable assumption?
To: betty boop
It is in projective geometry. It's not in affine geometry. Get with the (Erlanger) program, Betty.
IEEE arithmetic on reals treats infinity and -infinity (and indefinite) as ordinary numbers (with some special rules.) The proposed Language Independent Arithmetic standard has three zeros too (in some versions), plus zero, ordinary zero, and minus zero. This makes many computations run much more smoothly.
51 posted on
12/01/2004 9:39:02 PM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: betty boop
Jeepers, betty boop! The discussion going on this thread is the best I've seen in long time. I may not have anything useful to bring to the table, but I'm much appreciating the meditations.
To: betty boop; stripes1776; Doctor Stochastic; Alamo-Girl; Maroon; tortoise
Two Points:
1. Are we talking about "singularities" here?
Not the same as a "Vanishing Point", though.
2. Some time in the distant past, there was
short course I took where the set of integers
was developed from 2 or three axioms. I think
the author's name began with a P & ended in O.
Anybody help me on the name?
118 posted on
12/05/2004 9:34:26 AM PST by
cliff630
(cliff630 (Didn't Pilate ask Christ, "What is the Truth." Even while looking in the face of TRUTH))
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