Hello John, (01)
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 01:19:53AM -0400, John F Sowa wrote:
> The plus sign '+' is a simplified ampersand '&', which is an
> old Latin way of writing 'et'. So 2+2=4 is an abbreviation for
> "Two and two is 4." All the mathematical symbols evolved as
> abbreviations for ordinary words. Mathematicians can still read
> any equation over the phone to another mathematician as a sentence
> in whatever NL they share. (02)
I cannot resist to mention my latest fun project - which shows that
"I am not provable" is an abbreviation for something very big - at least 64
terabyte in my version: http://brunni.de/goedel/the_number_of_the_beast.html (03)
Regards, (04)
Michael Brunnbauer (05)
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