Re: What databases have taught me
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:49:23 GMT
Message-ID: <7lApg.4729$pu3.110118_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
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> I am not sure value is a concept that has meaning in pure mathematics.
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:49:23 GMT
Message-ID: <7lApg.4729$pu3.110118_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Bob Badour wrote:
>> It may be arbitrary (if by arbitrary you meant the "subject >> to judgment" and not "without reason") but it is obviously >> valuable. No?
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> I am not sure value is a concept that has meaning in pure mathematics.
Er, um, what the senator meant to say was... Let me rephrase that: In pure mathematics, value means something entirely unrelated to valuable. Received on Sat Jul 01 2006 - 21:49:23 CEST