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Why, how do you do?
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RE: Why, how do you do?
(February 13, 2010 at 6:49 pm)padraic Wrote:
(February 12, 2010 at 1:07 pm)BioLogos Wrote:
(February 12, 2010 at 1:05 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: And you seem to be able to read and write!
Only barely: I'm a mathematician.


Could be war worse, you could be a philosopher and perfectly literate but unintelligible.Devil

Besides,isn't maths a language?
In a very special sense of "language" - it gives us a way of formally expressing ideas about structure, pattern etc which conventional language find difficult. You could say the vocabulary of mathematics consists of mathematical objects (nouns), relations (verbs) and properties (adjectives), the grammar is logic.
Quote:PS: I like Lapsong Suchong and sex.. (in that order)
Presumably not at the same time? Wink
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#42
RE: Why, how do you do?
Quote:In a very special sense of "language" - it gives us a way of formally expressing ideas about structure, pattern etc which conventional language find difficult. You could say the vocabulary of mathematics consists of mathematical objects (nouns), relations (verbs) and properties (adjectives), the grammar is logic.

Funny, I could have sworn you said C of E,not Jesuit.






Quote:PS: I like Lapsong Suchong and sex.. (in that order)

Presumably not at the same time? Wink


Well to be honest, I actually prefer to have my tea after I've had my crumpet.
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