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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (11085)	2/21/2002 3:22:41 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I already exchanged notes with Dean on this subject. He offered no explanation other than the assertion that 89 was of "fundamental importance" in Anglion. It's one thing to use the language of mathematics but if one is going to write hundreds of pages on the subject one really can't offer lack of space as an excuse for not laying adequate foundations. To use terms like "prime factorization" in nonstandard ways and then not bother to elaborate precisely what those nonstandard ways are and how they are used seems at odds with the goal of "demonstration rather than rhetoric". Start by explaining clearly how and why one gets 89 rather than 3 as the "smallest prime factor" of 1573965 and then we can proceed. Stop completely and post no more on the subject if this cannot be done.