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From: BURT on 13 Aug 2010 19:01
On Aug 13, 11:32 am, PD <thedraperfam...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 12, 7:36 pm, Peter Riedt <rie...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > One is the only number in natural mathematics
>
> Peter, mathematics is not about how you write down mathematical
> expressions.
> What you call "natural mathematics" is a handy guide for writing down
> mathematical expressions, but that means that what you call "natural
> mathematics" isn't really mathematics.
>
> Plus, your dim programming experience makes you think, apparently,
> that mathematics can be reduced to simple coding exercises. I'd like
> to see how you get a cube root or a natural log to be a simple
> "incrementing or decrementing" procedure.
>
>
>
>
>
> > Natural mathematics is a system of using symbols (0-9, A-F, +, -,
> > *, /, =  etc) and letters of the Latin and Greek alphabets to express
> > an infinite number of numbers or attributes of material entities as
> > values or define relationships between entities and forces by
> > formulas. Everything that can be verified by human senses or
> > instruments or has a measurable effect can be reduced to a
> > mathematical notation. To cater for the entire complexity of the
> > system 8 rules are required. Rules 1 and 2 ensure that natural
> > mathematics is consistent in all situations providing a system of
> > absolute perfection.
>
> > The 8 rules of natural mathematics are:
>
> > 1. Natural mathematics uses number systems such as binary, octal,
> > decimal, duodecimal and hexadecimal to represent values. Each system
> > has only one basic number, the digit 1, but an infinite number of
> > derived numbers. Any number can be positive or negative. All derived
> > numbers are multiples or parts of -1 or +1 or a combination of
> > multiples and parts. Some numbers have special properties e.g. prime
> > numbers, infinite decimals, relative numbers, irrational numbers,
> > imaginary numbers and transcendental numbers. Zero and infinity are
> > not numbers or digits (refer Notes 1, 2 and 3).
>
> > 2. Derived numbers are made up from strings of the basic number. In
> > the decimal system, the symbols 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (digits 2 to 9)
> > represent strings 2 to 9 e. g. string 3 = 1 + 1 + 1 = 3.
>
> > 3. Zero and the digits 1 to 9 can be grouped in any combination to
> > form derived numbers. In the decimal system, each digit in a group is
> > multiplied by 10 or multiples of 10 according to its position from the
> > right less 1. The results are added together e. g. 305001 =
> > 3*10*10*10*10*10 + 5*10*10*10 + 1; 351 = 3*10*10 + 5*10 + 1. In the
> > other four systems, the position multiplier is 2, 8, 12 and 16
> > respectively. Negative numbers are created by multiplication with -1
> > e. g. -21 = 2*10 + 1 *-1.
>
> > 4. Operators such as +, -, *,  /, roots and powers etc can be used to
> > increment numbers by additive processes or decrement numbers by
> > subtractive processes. All processes are incremental (increasing a
> > value), decremental (decreasing a value) or comparative (comparing two
> > values to be LT, GT or equal to each other).
>
> > 5. Any number can be represented by a Latin or Greek letter or a
> > combination of numbers and letters (expressions).
>
> > 6. Formulas (equations) consist of two sets of numbers or expressions,
> > connected by the equal sign. When resolved, the values of set 1 and 2
> > will be equal if true or unequal if false.
>
> > 7. Attributes are represented by letters or symbols. They require a
> > reference or definition.
>
> > 8. Relationships are expressed by formulas.
>
> > Note 1: Zero is the dividing point between positive and negative
> > numbers. It represents the absence of a number. 1 - 1 = 0 but 1 apple
> > – 1 apple doesn’t mean that the apple has disappeared altogether. The
> > apple still exists in another place or form. Material entities can
> > only be moved or transformed; they cannot be destroyed or created from
> > nothing. Yet as nothing existed in the beginning and now a whole
> > universe can be observed and experienced, we must admit that ‘nothing’
> > has been the beginning of everything even though we cannot understand
> > how it happened.
>
> > Note 2: Infinity does not exist for material things. An infinitive
> > amount of any given material thing would preclude everything else i.e.
> > an infinite number of apples would mean an infinite universe of apples
> > and nothing else. In respect of time, there are four possibilities:
> > time with a beginning and end (finite time); time without a beginning
> > and end (infinite time); time with a beginning but no end (infinite
> > time opened); time with no beginning but an end (infinite time
> > closed).  The birth of any member of a life form is infinite time
> > closed and death is infinite time opened. The period between birth and
> > death  is infinite time interrupted. Other examples of infinity relate
> > to numbers. There is an infinite number of positive and negative
> > numbers and an infinite number of fractions between any two numbers.
>
> > Note 3. Both nothing and infinity are elements of the space outside
> > the universe (the void). The void is non-dimensional, immaterial and
> > timeless. The void contains an infinite amount of nothing and nothing
> > else. Nothing and infinity are companions.
>
> > Peter Riedt- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

I believe that one is the underlying continuum that gives birth to all
quantities. What happens between zero and one as quantities happens
from one to two and so on ad infinitum.

Mitch Raemsch
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