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From: johnbee on 5 Apr 2010 15:36

"John Jones" <jonescardiff(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> There is no literal meaning to the phrase "discrete function".

Just for your information, a discrete function is a function that is defined
only for a set of numbers that can be listed, such as the set of whole
numbers or the set of integers.




From: huge on 5 Apr 2010 17:21
johnbee :

> "John Jones" <jonescardiff(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:hpce3u$lfs$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>
>
>> There is no literal meaning to the phrase "discrete function".
>
> Just for your information, a discrete function is a function that is
> defined only for a set of numbers that can be listed, such as the set of
> whole numbers or the set of integers.

Now he'll claim that there is no literal meaning to the phrase "function,"
"set," "numbers," or "integers." If you sat across from him at dinner and
asked him to pass the salt, he would perform a lengthy linguistic analysis
on the meaning of "salt," while the rest of the people at table finish their
dinner. He's one of those sad sacs who are under the influence of Continental
philosophers such as Hegel and Derrida -- obscurantists all.





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huge: Not on my time you don't.
From: John Jones on 5 Apr 2010 19:10
huge wrote:
> johnbee :
>
>> "John Jones" <jonescardiff(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message
>> news:hpce3u$lfs$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>
>>
>>> There is no literal meaning to the phrase "discrete function".
>> Just for your information, a discrete function is a function that is
>> defined only for a set of numbers that can be listed, such as the set of
>> whole numbers or the set of integers.
>
> Now he'll claim that there is no literal meaning to the phrase "function,"
> "set," "numbers," or "integers." If you sat across from him at dinner and
> asked him to pass the salt, he would perform a lengthy linguistic analysis
> on the meaning of "salt," while the rest of the people at table finish their
> dinner. He's one of those sad sacs who are under the influence of Continental
> philosophers such as Hegel and Derrida -- obscurantists all.
>
>
>
>
>

The grammatical disaster is on you. If anyone asked you to pass the salt
you could do no more than say that salt is a technical term in another
language.
From: huge on 5 Apr 2010 22:06
John Jones :

> huge wrote:
>> johnbee :
>>
>>> "John Jones" <jonescardiff(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message
>>> news:hpce3u$lfs$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>>
>>>
>>>> There is no literal meaning to the phrase "discrete function".
>>> Just for your information, a discrete function is a function that is
>>> defined only for a set of numbers that can be listed, such as the set
>>> of whole numbers or the set of integers.
>>
>> Now he'll claim that there is no literal meaning to the phrase
>> "function," "set," "numbers," or "integers." If you sat across from
>> him at dinner and asked him to pass the salt, he would perform a
>> lengthy linguistic analysis on the meaning of "salt," while the rest of
>> the people at table finish their dinner. He's one of those sad sacs
>> who are under the influence of Continental philosophers such as Hegel
>> and Derrida -- obscurantists all.

> The grammatical disaster is on you. If anyone asked you to pass the salt
> you could do no more than say that salt is a technical term in another
> language.

Hey, if you think 7th or 8th grade algebra, where the concept of a function is
introduced, is another language -- you are even more ignorant than I thought.

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huge: Not on my time you don't.
From: John Jones on 6 Apr 2010 03:45
huge wrote:
> John Jones :
>
>> huge wrote:
>>> johnbee :
>>>
>>>> "John Jones" <jonescardiff(a)btinternet.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:hpce3u$lfs$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> There is no literal meaning to the phrase "discrete function".
>>>> Just for your information, a discrete function is a function that is
>>>> defined only for a set of numbers that can be listed, such as the set
>>>> of whole numbers or the set of integers.
>>> Now he'll claim that there is no literal meaning to the phrase
>>> "function," "set," "numbers," or "integers." If you sat across from
>>> him at dinner and asked him to pass the salt, he would perform a
>>> lengthy linguistic analysis on the meaning of "salt," while the rest of
>>> the people at table finish their dinner. He's one of those sad sacs
>>> who are under the influence of Continental philosophers such as Hegel
>>> and Derrida -- obscurantists all.
>
>> The grammatical disaster is on you. If anyone asked you to pass the salt
>> you could do no more than say that salt is a technical term in another
>> language.
>
> Hey, if you think 7th or 8th grade algebra, where the concept of a function is
> introduced, is another language -- you are even more ignorant than I thought.

There you go again. Salt isn't "really" salt, function isn't "really"
function, its a technical term in another language. There's no
connection between the two uses whatsoever.
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