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Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...)

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From: Ken Smith
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 00:00
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In article <E97o4r.I6v.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com>,
Don Porges <porges@sunfire.camb.inmet.com> wrote:
[...]
>True, but isn't this unnecessarily complicated?  Why not just map
>12/345 into 12345?  As long as each rational maps onto exactly one

I'm sure my method is more complex than really needed its just the one I 
could think of at the moment.  Your method has the problem that both 
12/345 and 123/45 map to the same integer.  My method avoids this problem.


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From: Ken Smith <kensmith@rahul.net>
Subject: Re: Zeno's Paradox (was Re: Moonlanding was FAKE...)
Date: 1997/04/26
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