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! > >Tudor Georgescu > >http://intellect-club.nl.eu.org > >Fax +1-775-245-5922 > > > > > > > --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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