[lojban] Re: xorlo

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 9/9/2009 09:29:41 Eastern Daylight Time, kali9putra@yahoo.com writes:


> OK, "arithmetic" in the technical sense, i.e., the theory of the natural numbers, from Peano's axioms or Frege's or from set theory by any of various routes -- or all of the above.  West Coast (vs. East) in the 60's seems to have been characterized  by (among several other points) by starting the natural numbers at 0 and by using variable outside the ordering to begin with, then switching over to ordinals beginning with 0.  "UCLA" is just hubris, though that is where most of this stuff was done in those days.  But Berkeley would do almost as well, even Stanford, but definitely not Harvard or Princeton


Ah, thanks for the clarification.

stevo