1997-01-20 - Re: Dedikend Cut’s and such

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Jim Choate)
Message Hash: 8ba219827f800fa5f8508ac97762226f14e421cbd5f836ac4b571fe9ad6ae18f
Message ID: <199701200650.WAA07301@songbird.com>
Reply To: <199701200008.SAA00943@einstein>
UTC Datetime: 1997-01-20 05:48:18 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 21:48:18 -0800 (PST)

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 21:48:18 -0800 (PST)
To: ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com (Jim Choate)
Subject: Re: Dedikend Cut's and such
In-Reply-To: <199701200008.SAA00943@einstein>
Message-ID: <199701200650.WAA07301@songbird.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Jim Choate allegedly said:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Did a little research, Dedekind Cut's and such use Integers to define a
> SPECIFIC Real to a arbitrary BUT FIXED resolution. They do not define the
> set of Reals.

They do.  The set of all numbers representable by a DC is precisely 
the set of reals.

-- 
Kent Crispin				"No reason to get excited",
kent@songbird.com,kc@llnl.gov		the thief he kindly spoke...
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