[Math Noise] (fwd)

Jim Choate ravage at EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Mon Jan 20 08:25:53 PST 1997



> > And I contend that ANY number which is Real can be expressed by the decimal
> > expansion above. Which clearly qualifies as a formal system.
> 
> To be a formal system of the type required, you would also have to 
> specify deterministic rules that could generate the "Ai" values.  The 
> key distinction is between "expressed by" and "generated by".

But we do have a formal system for generating those terms. Dedekind Cuts
used to enumerate the value of an arbitrary length compared to the unit
length.








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