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

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Message Hash: 47b8b21dd1457f2e4514a4fb195b1ebfb8b95607be5c78ab7191df1d5f623299
Message ID: <199701200610.WAA01640@toad.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1997-01-20 06:10:45 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 22:10:45 -0800 (PST)

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 22:10:45 -0800 (PST)
To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Subject: Re: Dedikend Cut's and such
Message-ID: <199701200610.WAA01640@toad.com>
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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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