Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!midway!midway!stephen From: stephen@estragon.uchicago.edu (Stephen P Spackman) Newsgroups: comp.compression Subject: Re: IP gnitaluclaC rof margorP Message-ID: Date: 17 Apr 91 00:56:28 GMT References: <1991Apr12.104200.1691@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1991Apr16.140125.17898@convex.com> <15869@smoke.brl.mil> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Organization: University of Chicago CILS Lines: 14 In-Reply-To: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil's message of 16 Apr 91 20: 58:02 GMT In article <15869@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: In article <1991Apr16.140125.17898@convex.com> jjensen@convex.UUCP (James Jensen) writes: >I don't think the set exists. As soon as you define the set some trouble >maker will wonder "So whats the smallest string not in this set?" ... So, what is the least positive integer not expressable in less than 13 English words? It could be contested that this number isn't interesting to represent! (Only its representation is intresting...) ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- stephen p spackman Center for Information and Language Studies systems analyst University of Chicago ----------------------------------------------------------------------