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- From: muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
- Subject: Re: TIME HAS INERTIA. V.R.PRATT's LATEST COMMENT ON FTA
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:41:22 GMT
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- In article <abian.722489461@pv343f.vincent.iastate.edu> abian@iastate.edu (Alexander Abian) writes:
- >>>
- >>> 1/ (1+z+z^2) = 1 - z + z^3 - z^4 + z^6 - ...
- >>>
- >>> 1/ (z^2+z+1) = 1/(z^2) - 1/(z^3) + 1/(z^5) - 1/(z^6) + ...
- >>>The two expressions on the right side of = must be identical. But
- >>>they are not. Contradiction. Hence our assumption is false and the
- >>>Theorem is proved.
- > You notice that I said "The two expressions on the right side
- >of = must be IDENTICAL" (by virtue of the well known uniqueness
- >of the expansion of Analytic Functions). The reason that in the
- >unabridged version I mentioned the "singularity" -because people
- >would have then asked "Why they should be identical" - in fact someone
- >asked !
-
- One of my math profs (I hope he doesn't read this newsgroup ;-) once
- said that the greatest invention ever made by mankind was the
- three dots: ... I think if Mr. Abian would expand those ... then he
- would find that eventually they meet up. That might give us enough time
- to build the energymeter! :-).
-