RE: MD On Transcendence

From: mel (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Nov 12 2004 - 04:24:24 GMT

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    Hello Scott,

    Actually I was not thinking of NUMBERS
    but rather of QUANTITIES. The
    representational mapping may be invented,
    but the quantities are not, in the integer
    realm (positive) and fractions.

    So, go with the connotation rather than
    strict denotation...or better yet, a better
    example.

    thanks-mel

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    [mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk] On Behalf Of Scott Roberts
    Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:31 AM
    To: moq_discuss@moq.org
    Subject: RE: MD On Transcendence

    Mel,

    > Of course even in the intellectual we agree on the
    > being of non-existence things for certain purposes,
    > say, square root of negative one.

    Bad example. The square root of negative one ('i') is no less
    non-existent
    than any other number. It can be interpreted visually as the rotation by
    90
    degrees in the plane, that is, given a complex number (which can be
    represented as a point on the plane), multiplying it by i is to rotate
    it
    by 90 degrees (around the (0,0) point). Multiplying it again by i
    rotates
    it another 90 degrees, or 180 degrees total, which is to reverse the
    original number's direction, which is what you get by multipying the
    original number by -1.

    - Scott

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