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Subject: Sorry, I misedited the previous reply
From: Florin Mateoc <mateoc () orbonline ! net>
Date: 1998-04-28 4:57:51
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At 07:43 PM 27/04/98 -0300, David wrote:
>
>>> Integer size
>>>=> AlephNull
>>
>>To be consistent with the #do: issue, Integer size should not be null.
>>
>
>AlephNull is not null. it is the number of elements in a non-recursively
>ennumerable set. this is an uncountable infinity of numbers.
>
>(or something like that. it is big, Big, BIG. see Cantor.)
>
>((i'm not a mathematician. i just have a friend who, instead of "99 Bottles
>of beer on the wall" likes to sing "Aleph Null bottles of beer on the
wall".))
>
My reply should have come here:
You are, of course, right. I sometimes (quite often) jump before thinking.
The nice thing though is that the argument stands even after the correction.
I could even pretend it was a typo :)
Florin
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