From: Devin Mullins <twifkak@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T13:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: NEWBIE QUESTION: pattern with nil

Kev Jackson wrote:

>> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/OrdinalNumber.html
>
> Yeah I have to agree here, integers are a Set of values based on a 
> single number line (according to my recollection), 
> reals/floats/engineering units are also a Set of values that exist on 
> this line (with them both exist the negative values), and for complex 
> numbers we have to expand into 2 dimensions.

Woah, woah, woah. Integers are just things that satisfy a specific set 
of axioms. The cool Georgian definition is just one way of defining a 
bunch of items that are Integers, as much as anything that satisfies 
those axioms are Integers. Isomorphism is a wonderful thing.

Devin