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Re: JSH: What's at issue

Subject: Re: JSH: What's at issue
From: "Ben Stiller"
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:20:33 -0600
Newsgroups: alt.math.undergrad, alt.math, sci.math
<jstevh@xxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:1162260314.998059.234950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> William Hughes wrote:
>> jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:
>> > Rick Decker wrote:
>> > > jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:


<snip>>


>
> Um, some person deliberately PICKED a way to multiply by 7, so how can
> how they multiplied depend on the value of x?
>
> Do you believe that person magically keeps shifting how they picked
> dependent on x?
>
> Like a daemon capable of doing an infinite number of moves?
>
> 7(f(x) + 1)*(g(x) + 2) = (a_1(x) + 7)*(a_2(x) + 7)
>
> A person DELIBERATELY multiplies that 7 through in a particular way,
> playing a game with you to figure out which way they did it.
>
> How do you think they could do that in such a way that the value of x
> varies how they did it?
>
> No human being can shift over infinity to magically adjust their choice
> for every possible x, so what is your reasoning here?
>
>
> James Harris
>

you know nothing about math,
not how to read it, not how to do it, not how to understand it, and not how 
to write it. 



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