[105732] in Cypherpunks
Re: Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Thu Nov 19 17:11:42 1998
From: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 15:29:56 -0600 (CST)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Forwarded message:
> Subject: Re: Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math (fwd)
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 98 10:48:53 -0800
> From: "Vladimir Z. Nuri" <vznuri@netcom.com>
> jim, don't be a bonehead.
> what would it gain you if one defined 1 as prime?!?!?
> "very bad science/math"?? yeah, coming from you!!
Quite sendin this shit to my private email, send it to the list.
It gains a consistency at the axiomatic level that isn't there now.
If it won't do anything to the math you shouldn't object to adding it
(course you'll have to add 'applies to all primes except 1' to a lot of
theorems.
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