Re: Usenet-controversial

In article <1129347513@xxxxxxxxx>, Wayne Throop <throopw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>: wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Garrett Wollman)
>: Can you, or can you not, conceive of a system of mathematics in which
>: a *different* number pops out in all those same places?
>
>OK. Some progress in the "what does it mean" department.
>We've come a ways from "pi has a different value".
>But not quite there. What does it mean to be "the same place"?

Thank you for making clear that you have no interest in upholding your
side of the conversation. That being the case, I'll stop wasting my
time.

-GAWollman

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