From jjllambias@hotmail.com Wed Jul 05 19:38:06 2000 Return-Path: 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 Subject: Re: [lojban] 2 maths questions Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:38:05 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "Jorge Llambias" 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