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To: snarks_when_bored

mathematicians see irreducible complexity as signalling the limits of rationality.

And, I'm guessing, the possible threshold of irrationality. It sounds good anyway. Except for those damned irrational numbers.

216 posted on 09/08/2005 6:17:57 PM PDT by ml1954
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To: ml1954
And, I'm guessing, the possible threshold of irrationality. It sounds good anyway. Except for those damned irrational numbers.

I addressed that in the first version of my reply to you! I guess I should've left in my parenthetical "(in the non-mathematical sense of the word)". But even if one considers irrational numbers (such as the square root of 2 or pi), it should be noted that the sequence of digits to the right of the decimal point in their infinite expansions is effectively random. So there is this odd mixture of chance and necessity in the irrational numbers. Quite lovely, really.

222 posted on 09/08/2005 6:26:51 PM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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