17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 5:08 PM 1/19/1997, Jim Choate wrote:
In reference to numbers which you can't describe, if you examine the work they are ALL in the Complex domain, none of them are Real's.
This is incorrect. The argument outlined applied to real numbers only. If you wish to refute the argument please do so. You might find it helpful to review the reference in Smullyan's book.
If there existed a Real for which we could not describe this would imply that we could not draw a line of that length.
The subtlety of the idea lies in the fact that you can't make a statement like "$foo is not describable" where $foo means anything. Any number for which you can say, "I can draw a line which is $bar units long" is describable. Math Man