And then there's Kronecker's famous remark:
God created the integers, all else is the work of man.
:-)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 2:47 PM
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> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Subtyping in XML
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>
> Jeff Lowery scripsit:
>
> > Real numbers aren't a type???
>
> Well, if a type is just a set/class, then yes, they are. I
> think it more useful to exclude uncountable classes from the
> types. Floating-point numbers are definitely a type: they
> are countable and in fact finite. Integers and rational
> numbers are a type: countable but not finite.
>
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> John Cowan
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> raft from Polynesia.
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