From sentto-44114-3426-962851086-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Thu Jul 06 02:36:25 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: shoulson-kli@meson.org Received: (qmail 13445 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2000 02:36:24 -0000 Received: from zash.lupine.org (205.186.156.18) by pi.meson.org with SMTP; 6 Jul 2000 02:36:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 10139 invoked by uid 40001); 6 Jul 2000 02:38:11 -0000 Delivered-To: kli-mark@kli.org Received: (qmail 10136 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2000 02:38:08 -0000 Received: from fk.egroups.com (208.50.144.73) by zash.lupine.org with SMTP; 6 Jul 2000 02:38:08 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-44114-3426-962851086-mark=kli.org@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.10.38] by fk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 06 Jul 2000 02:38:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 1126 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2000 02:38:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 6 Jul 2000 02:38:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.240.158) by mta1 with SMTP; 6 Jul 2000 02:38:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 65158 invoked by uid 0); 6 Jul 2000 02:38:05 -0000 Message-ID: <20000706023805.65157.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.32.23.94 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:38:05 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.32.23.94] To: lojban@egroups.com From: "Jorge Llambias" 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: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:38:05 PDT Subject: Re: [lojban] 2 maths questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit la and cusku di'e >2. The set of even numbers and the set of integers are both infinite, >but how does one express the notion that the latter is bigger, because >there are twice as many integers as even numbers? That erroneous notion can be expressed, for example, as: lei relmeina'u lei kacna'u cu xadba le ka kaclai The even numbers are half the integers in number. >In what property >does the set of integers exceed the set of even numbers? Apparent numerosity? >I presume >there is a well-known answer to this question, but the best I can >do on my own is something along the lines of "frequency" or >"distributional density" (within the set of integers/numbers/whatever); Certainly in any given finite interval (with more than one number anyway) the integers outnumber the evens, but not in total. >if that is the way to go, then how does one actually say it in Lojban? lei kacna'u lei relmeina'u cu zmadu le ka denmi co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Who invented Gatorade -- and what part did it play in winning the1967 Orange Bowl? Find out the true facts at http://click.egroups.com/1/6212/4/_/17627/_/962851085/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com