File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0306, message 39


Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 23:19:11 -0400
From: Ed Wall <ewall-AT-umich.edu>
Subject: RE: The dimension of a manifold


This is interesting although there may be a problem with your 
correspondence. However, I am not sure about where the decimal point 
goes. For example does 1,0,0 correspond to 100 and 0, 0, 1 correspond 
to 1?

Ed Wall

>  > the dimension of the manifold is the number of coordinates needed
>>  to determine a general element of the set...
>
>We can determine each point in a space by a real number. Think of a,b,c
>being its Cartesian coordinates. Then the number made of the cifers
>...a(n+1)b(n+1)c(n+1)a(n)b(n)c(n)a(n-1)b(n-1)c(n-1)... where t(n) is the
>n-th cifer of number t, it is a real number which represents the point. So,
>our tridirectional space is onedimensional, having only the dimension of
>distance defined by three directions of it.
>
>Gigantomachia peri tes ousias!
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