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echo: philos
to: MARK BLOSS
from: WILLIAM ELLIOT
date: 1998-02-24 23:48:00
subject: `Existence Exists`

 >>> Mark Bloss on "Existence Exists" 
 WE> I think that we concur, integers have no substance, are imaginary, and
 WE> god partakes of this imaginary substance. 
 MB> Yet, aren't they so good at what they do?
 WE> I'd imagine infinitely so. -)
 MB> Yes, infinitely and they are gauranteed to work as advertized, I bet,
 MB> also. 
Naw, extremely large integers are hard to keep track of.  Usually they end up 
be rounded off such as approximately 10^100 atoms in the universe.  Not only 
that but if you added a million more of atoms to the universe, the number of 
atoms in the universe will remain the same, approximately 10^100.
Most integers have never been used, named, notated, discussed or even 
individually imagined.  That is most of them have never been imagined, are 
beyond imagination.  Mathematicians imagine that they can imagine the whole 
infinite bunch of integers.  On the other hand, most people are content with 
the few that they know.
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