• Sergio@slrpnk.net
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    19 days ago

    Relative: You know about computers, right?

    Me: I’m not sure. Who knows about computers, really? In the words of W.S. McCulloch, “What is a number, that a man may know it, and a man, that he may know a number?” (if you’ll pardon the gendered language) Now if you extend this to computation…

    Relative: All right, STFU, I just wanted to know how to update my Amazon account…

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      18 days ago

      What is a number, that a man may know it?

      Lets start with natural numbers and define the integers, rational, real and complex numbers as solutions to certain equations.

      and a man, that he may know a number?

      Now you asked for to much.