Re: [lojban] 2 maths questions

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

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?

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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