From sentto-44114-3469-962999470-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Fri Jul 07 19:49:31 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 16296 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 19:49:30 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 19:49:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 27826 invoked by uid 40001); 7 Jul 2000 19:51:25 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 27823 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 19:51:24 -0000 Received: from b05.egroups.com (207.138.41.189) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 19:51:24 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-3469-962999470-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.37] by b05.egroups.com with NNFMP; 07 Jul 2000 19:51:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 3685 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 19:51:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Jul 2000 19:51:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 19:51:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA02030; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:27:40 -0400 (EDT) To: Jorge Llambias Cc: lojban@egroups.com In-Reply-To: <20000707023327.59179.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: list lojban@egroups.com; contact lojban-owner@egroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list lojban@egroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:27:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [lojban] 2 maths questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jorge Llambias wrote: > It gets as thin as you like. But you don't need to go to > something as fancy as the primes. The powers of two also > get thinner and thinner all the time, and there are just > as many of them as integers. Sure. What I'm interested in is whether it makes sense to assign a single number (not one dependent on ranges) to the relative thickness of the primes and the powers of two. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org "You need a change: try Canada" "You need a change: try China" --fortune cookies opened by a couple that I know ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Make new friends, find the old at Classmates.com: http://click.egroups.com/1/5530/4/_/17627/_/962999470/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com