[Sca-cooks] Plat was Sausage recipes

[Martin G. Diehl]

"Lonnie D. Harvel" wrote:
> 
> lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> > there was no year 0 - just 1 BCE and 1 CE
> >
> In an attempt to explain to a friend why the year 2000 
> was the end of the millennium and not the beginning of a 
> new one, I pointed out that there was no year 0. 

[snip]

> "The number zero had barely been invented,"I responded, 
> "and Bede, though aware of it, chose not to us it in his 
> dating system."  "Invented!" she declared. "Umm, yes," I 
> responded tentatively, as she was growing quite agitated. 
> Her consternation seemed to progress to a state bordering 
> on horror. She ran away.

Next time, start with Frege's definition of number  ... 

	Frege, Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob (1848-1925) 

	A German mathematician and philosopher who virtually 
	founded the modern discipline of mathematical logic. 
	In Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik (1884), he used set 
	theory to define the cardinal number of a given class 
	as the class of all classes that are similar (i.e. 
	can be placed in a one-to-one correspondence) to 
	the given class. 

> I am still amazed by this reaction. Apparently, the idea 
> that numbers had been invented undermined her sense of 
> reality. 

It's a good thing you didn't mention 'bleen' -- The noted 
author George Carlin once claimed that ...  

	"The Nobel Prize in mathematics was awarded 
	yesterday to a California professor who has 
	discovered a new number. The number is "bleen", 
	which he says belongs between six and seven." 

> I finally understood why "breaching" experiments were 
> generally banned.
> 
> Aoghann

Vincenzo

-- 
Martin G. Diehl

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Reality: That which remains after you stop thinking about it.
  inspired by P. K. Dick