From jjllambias@hotmail.com Thu Jul 06 19:33:27 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32105 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2000 02:33:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Jul 2000 02:33:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (216.33.241.43) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2000 02:33:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 59180 invoked by uid 0); 7 Jul 2000 02:33:27 -0000 Message-ID: <20000707023327.59179.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 200.42.153.103 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Thu, 06 Jul 2000 19:33:27 PDT X-Originating-IP: [200.42.153.103] To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] 2 maths questions Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 19:33:27 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed From: "Jorge Llambias" la djan cusku di'e >What I don't know is whether this notion of "thickness" can be >extrapolated beyond the sets which are multiples of some integer. >How "thick" is the set of primes relative to the set of integers, >for example? It gets as thin as you like. But you don't need to go to something as fancy as the primes. The powers of two also get thinner and thinner all the time, and there are just as many of them as integers. co'o mi'e xorxes ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com