[at-l] algebra Re: Facts

[Frank Looper]

Don't worry so much about the >0 issue. That's what god made i for. :-)

On 4/21/09, KGJ <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:
> uh.  is not abs(sqrt[x**2]) not always equal x for all x>0?  is this not a
> mathematical truism?
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: David Addleton
>   To: Tom McGinnis
>   Cc: at-l at backcountry.net ; KGJ
>   Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:24 PM
>   Subject: Re: [at-l] algebra Re: Facts
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>
>   a wee bit o' al Jibra levened with more hindoo cleverness . . .
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>   don't drink 'n derive:  I beg to differ:
>
>   that "the square of any square root is itself" is true *only* in the
> *single* case of *one*
>
>   [and it, by definition, is not a prime]
>
>   hence, 1 = evil = money = facts
>
>   and, still, I've seen no coin
>
>   so, sweep up little sweeper boy, it's you whose [still] got the wig on
> here . . .
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>   On 4/21/09, Tom McGinnis <sloetoe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>     --- On Mon, 4/20/09, KGJ <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:
>
>     > I've got a buddy who likes to debate the "facts" of hiking
>     > and such.  He insists that facts are "good",
>     > and I say that facts take on
>     > no inherent value.  Is there an axiom in logic that
>     > bolsters my claim?
>
>     Remind your buddy that facts take time and money.
>
>          FACTS = TIME * MONEY
>
>     Observe to him that, as he well knows, "time equals money."
>
>          TIME = MONEY
>
>     Demonstrate for him that facts are therefore equivalent to (money)².
> [Anybody who has recently paid for college tuition is free to argue the
> exponent, but I digress...)
>     Therefore,
>
>          FACTS = (MONEY)²
>
>     Now, it has long been held that "money is the root of all evil," or
> algebraically,
>
>          MONEY = √EVIL
>
>     So it is patently obvious that
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>          FACTS = (MONEY)² = (√EVIL)²
>
>     And as the square of any square root is itself,
>
>         (√EVIL)² = EVIL
>
>     therefore,
>
>           FACTS = EVIL
>
>     Quad est demonstratum.
>
>     algebricktoe
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