Jack comments on The Last Number - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 April 2010 12:09PM

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Comment author: Jack 10 April 2010 08:13:41PM *  1 point [-]

This was my first reaction. But one way of showing that arithmetic is inconsistent would be to show that under it's axioms some very very large number (edit: I mean integer, thanks Stuart) was equal to 3.2.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 10 April 2010 09:24:24PM 1 point [-]

Some very large integer.

Comment author: AllanCrossman 22 September 2013 01:31:40AM 1 point [-]

Huh, integer. I don't know how that got past me when I wrote that.