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- From: hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: Correlation Lengths of Language Changes
- Message-ID: <Jan.21.22.01.58.1993.979@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 03:01:58 GMT
- References: <Jan.18.22.09.21.1993.9749@pilot.njin.net> <5035 <Jan.20.14.55.06.1993.19255@pilot.njin.net> <1993Jan20.211604.7948@cs.sfu.ca>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- In article <1993Jan20.211604.7948@cs.sfu.ca> jcalder@cs.sfu.ca (Jo Calder) writes:
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- >
- > Where, in the real world, are the integers?
- >
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- It was a joke. A famous mathematician once said that 'God invented
- the integers and mankind invented the rest of math.'
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- Finally integers are everywhere. History of computation probably
- begins with people counting on their fingers then toes :-)..
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- mark
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