ONT Re: Riffs And Rote Arithmetic -- Correction
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RARA. Note 5
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| Nota Bene to Inquiry and Ontology List Members:
| Please ignore the quoted section of the first
| posting of this RARA Note 5, since that was
| a personal correspondence mistakenly copied.
| Thanks, Jon Awbrey.
antti,
okay, will try to see what i can see in this again.
if you look at my "how i got into this" confession
on the zoo thread, you will see that i've suffered
a long love-tryst with arboreal primal parentheses:
zoo 3. http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05163.html
but a critical juncture occurred around about 1980,
and it will be too much t'ask right now to say why,
but it forced me to shift to cacti, which are made
on an alphabet of 3 or 4 symbols "(", ",", ")" and
sometimes " ", depending on how you count the coup.
other than painted cacti, riffs and rotes keep the
old faith with trees, but all in all i have to hew
pretty close to the old lambda point trixt algebra,
geometry, and logic in order to keep the campfires
burning in the charmed circle. the burning number-
theoretic question remains, as ever: what portion
of the order of the integers is pure combinatorics?
enough for now,
jon awbrey
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