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From: vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Why can't the Mac add?
Message-ID: <4b2tD_i00VpN41YUdT@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 19:55:54 GMT
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	<1990Oct3.190234.16818@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.mac.programmer: 3-Oct-90 Re: Why can't
> the Mac add? Michael g. account@rodan (2555)

> In article <8614@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
> (Mark Wilkins) writes:
> >  For any message relating to the countability of infinitely-extended
> >fractional rational numbers the number of copies of the message needed
> >to get the point across has the cardinality of Aleph-null.
> >  See the last message on the subject for a practical example.
> >:-)
> >-- M. W.

> Not neccesarily.
> After explaining this point to the "unwashed hordes" perhaps  3,4, or
> even 5 hundred times previously, I've gotten pretty good at it.
> Here Goes:
> [Goes on to explain why not all terminating decimals are terminating
> binary "decimals".]

Congratulations.  You have just furthered Mark's point by increasing the
number of explanations by one, making it one closer to infinite....


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