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Does mathematical reality trump physical reality?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 14, 2010
Alain Connes thinks so, if I have understood his point of view correctly: “You conceive of my external mathematical reality as  part of the external physical world. What I am about to tell you is going to come as a surprise, then. For me, it’s just the opposite: external physical reality is a part of […]
So you think you know how to multiply decimals?
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 12, 2010
Finite and infinite decimals In school students are taught how to add , subtract, and multiply, – but usually not divide – decimal numbers. There is a big catch however. The decimal numbers are not infinite decimals, such as we would obtain from or The decimal numbers dealt with in school are all finite decimal […]
