From xod@sixgirls.org Sun Jul 09 07:20:01 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32400 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2000 14:20:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 9 Jul 2000 14:20:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reva.sixgirls.org) (207.252.3.72) by mta1 with SMTP; 9 Jul 2000 14:20:01 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by reva.sixgirls.org (8.9.3+3.2W/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA13025 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:19:59 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 10:19:59 -0400 (EDT) To: Lojban Listserver Subject: RE: [lojban] 2 maths questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Invent Yourself On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, And Rosta wrote: > John: > > On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Thorild Selen wrote: > > > > > What you really want to say is probably that the set of even > > > numbers is a _proper subset_ of the set of integers, so there > > > is certainly a well known name for this relation. > > > > Yes, but it isn't quantifiable. I want to able to say that > > the set of integers is twice as "thick" ("dense" is already used > > for a different property) as the set of evens, and that the set > > of evens is 500,000 times as "thick" as the set of multiples of > > one million. > > What is density? [Give me dimbo's answer only.] > > Anyway, I originally was trying to ask (i) whether "thickness" is a > recognized notion, and (ii) how to say it in Lojban. I am sticking my nose where it doesn't belong. I can't say that I look forward to seeing the weird English conflation [between 1) long in the away-direction, and 2) density] get repeated in Lojban. I suspect density is exactly the concept you're looking for, and that you are discussing two different kinds of density. ----- Wait! RSA Algorithm is coplicated, so many mathematical calculation. Please, wait for a little while or more during Decryption as your computer system.