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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: how
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:43:11 -0700
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On 6/11/2024 12:41 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 6/10/2024 4:20 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> On 6/10/2024 4:09 PM, Moebius wrote:
>>> Am 11.06.2024 um 00:49 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:
>>>> On 6/10/2024 3:47 PM, Moebius wrote:
>>>>> Am 11.06.2024 um 00:33 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Crap, or really bad? What did I miss here?
>>>>>
>>>>> Math? :-)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was just thinking about,
>>>>
>>>> [1, 2, 3, 4, ...]
>>>>
>>>> applied to:
>>>>
>>>> [1/2, 2/2, 3/2, 4/2, ...]
>>>>
>>>> creates
>>>>
>>>> [.5, 1, 1.5, 2, ...]
>>>
>>> Ummm...
>>>
>>> [1/2, 2/2, 3/2, 4/2, ...] = [.5, 1, 1.5, 2, ...].
>>>
>>> Say, in the context of Q or IR (with decinal representation of numbers).
>>>
>>>> Refining to all the naturals we get:
>>>>
>>>> [1, 2, ...]
>>>
>>> What do you "mean" be "refining"? :-P
>>>
>>> I guess you mean some sort of ""reduction"" (or "filtering").
>>>
>>> Actually, I've never heard about this (in a math context).
> 
> My programming side. ;^)
> 
> 
>>> But it certainly can be defined.
> 
> Yup! It sure can and is interesting to me.
> 
> By the way... Wrt something like:
> 
> 0.666...
> 
> is:
> 
> 0.(6) better and easier to read?
> 
> 
>>> Let's call this operation "nat".
>>>
>>> Then
>>>
>>>      nat [.5, 1, 1.5, 2, ...] = [1, 2, ...] .
>>>
>>> And, say,
>>>
>>>      nat [.5, 2, 1.5, 7, ...] = [2, 7, ...] .
>>
>>
>> For the filter, or refinement, yes. [.5, 2, 1.5, 7, ...] = [2, 7, ...]
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>>>
>>> Right?
>>>
>>>> Make any sense?
>>>
>>> Sure.
>>
> 
> Therefore:
> 
> nat [-.5, 8/2, 14/3, 5/2, .6(6), 4/2, -7, 5.2, 0+0i, ...] = [4, 2, ...]
> 
> The nat operation seems logical to me. :^)

Or, if somebody desires to treat zero as a natural number the result 
would be, wrt the 0+0i element,

[4, 2, 0, ...]

Humm...