Re: Proposal: 6NF

paul c wrote:

> Yes, what pleases the eye or one's consciousness seems different for us
> all and pointless to try to quantify even though social engineers keep
> trying, I guess because they want to apply math that they are familiar
> with and call those narrow results answers or conclusions. It does
> please me that some of mathematics can be used to reason about other
> parts of mathematics, I guess this is beautiful for some people if not
> me. When I see a short proof or an economical analogy of one, I like
> that too. It is the elaborate mechanisms people come up with to twist
> what the bare metal is capable of that bugs me. When it comes to
> business systems I've yet to meet an executive who isn't satisfied with
> division by zero resulting in zero.
I did not go that far. I was refering to the abstract representations allowed in math: symetry that define all elements in nature having a perfect counterparts (protons/antiprotons), fractals describing snowflakes construct, permutation representing change of state, trigonometry representing variationsof waves and multidimensional geometry describing (or attempting to describe) what our mind can grasp of the universe .

> Rightness is just as subjective as beauty. While I wish that consumer
> machines used base 10 arithmetic, as long as they don't then let the
> lawyers use a specialty program or paper-based tables to get the right
> mortgage calculation. That seems a natural kind of variety to me and
> life being a short as it is, we should just get used to it, just as we
> are used to not being able to find an exact Imperial equivalent for a 44
> millimeter Metric nut fastener.
True but math is a language universal that helps overcome the chaotic nature of human mind...Allowing us to communicate with others

> In the so-called computer advances of recent years, I think the ones
> that ended up hitting the street are less a result of reason and more a
> result of accident.
You lost me on that...jumping to philophy is tempting but I guess this is not the purpose of our presence around...
> p
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