From sentto-44114-3470-963000799-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Fri Jul 07 20:11:35 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 16321 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 20:11:34 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 20:11:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 28917 invoked by uid 40001); 7 Jul 2000 20:13:27 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 28914 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 20:13:27 -0000 Received: from mk.egroups.com (207.138.41.165) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 20:13:27 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-3470-963000799-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.38] by mk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 07 Jul 2000 20:13:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 24153 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 20:13:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Jul 2000 20:13:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 20:13:18 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA02696; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 16:49:39 -0400 (EDT) To: Ivan A Derzhanski Cc: The Lojban List In-Reply-To: <39657E2D.45E9@math.bas.bg> 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 16:49:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [lojban] 2 maths questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote: > And in the same way the set of all integers that aren't divisible > by 3 is twice as thick as the set of integers that are, although > neither is a subset of the other (their intersection is empty). Appealing. > [V]ery many interesting sets don't have a constant thickness. Granted. But is there a sense in which it makes sense to talk about the overall thickness, and assign an aggregate value to it? -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Experience MSN... Get 1 FREE* month of unlimited Internet access! http://click.egroups.com/1/6323/4/_/17627/_/963000799/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com