Reply to: Antisemitism in Christianity

[NotAllThere]

Nobody writes jokes in base 13.

I know Douglas Adams didn't.

[WTFH]

Which is true, in base 13.

Nobody writes jokes in base 13.

[NotAllThere]

Thought you weren't going to do this intellectual stuff?

Basic primary school maths, isn't it?

[JohntheBike]

In hexadecimal A + B = 15.....

yes, but I deliberately mixed the two systems up, just as I did for the Roman numerals.

[BrilloPad]

There’s no point in having that number without knowing how you got it.

Having brought Millie in from a muddy walk earlier, I gave her a shower. As I towelled her off, I was thinking to myself: What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

...and that’s how you get 42.

Number of pubs you have been banned from?

[Gibbon]

Which is true, in base 13.

Thought you weren't going to do this intellectual stuff?

[NotAllThere]

What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

...and that’s how you get 42.

Which is true, in base 13.

[Mordac]

Having brought Millie in from a muddy walk earlier, I gave her a shower. As I towelled her off, I was thinking to myself: How the hell am I not the sex offenders register yet?

You sort of asked for that...

[BR14]

In hexadecimal A + B = 15.....

aye, - right

[Amanensia]

and don't forget hexadecimal where A + B = 21

In hexadecimal A + B = 15.....

[BR14]

how many roads must a mouse travel?

F11C

[vetran]

nah, that's 25 or 6 to 4

how many roads must a mouse travel?

[BR14]

There’s no point in having that number without knowing how you got it.

Having brought Millie in from a muddy walk earlier, I gave her a shower. As I towelled her off, I was thinking to myself: What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

...and that’s how you get 42.

nah, that's 25 or 6 to 4

[WTFH]

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There’s no point in having that number without knowing how you got it.

Having brought Millie in from a muddy walk earlier, I gave her a shower. As I towelled her off, I was thinking to myself: What do you get if you multiply six by nine?

...and that’s how you get 42.

[BR14]

For a start, even if it is a tautology, it in no way invalidates the contention that for a given x, 1+1=x has an infinitesimal probability of being true.

But it isn't a tautology. It's a proposition.

Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell spent a couple of hundred pages proving it in Principia Arithmetica. The Peano arithmetic proof of 1+1=2 arises from these axioms:

0 is a natural number.
The next four axioms describe the equality relation. Since they are logically valid in first-order logic with equality, they are not considered to be part of "the Peano axioms" in modern treatments.[5]

• For every natural number x, x = x. That is, equality is reflexive.
• For all natural numbers x and y, if x = y, then y = x. That is, equality is symmetric.
• For all natural numbers x, y and z, if x = y and y = z, then x = z. That is, equality is transitive.
• For all a and b, if b is a natural number and a = b, then a is also a natural number. That is, the natural numbers are closed under equality.
• For every natural number n, S(n) is a natural number.
• For all natural numbers m and n, m = n if and only if S(m) = S(n). That is, S is an injection.
• For every natural number n, S(n) = 0 is false. That is, there is no natural number whose successor is 0.

Note: 1+1=2 is not an axiom. But it is provably true from these axioms. Of course, if you choose to define 2 as 1+1, then 1+1=2 is a tautology. But mathematicians don't define numbers like that.

It is a logical fallacy to say that because the probability of a proposition being true is infinitesimal, then the proposition isn't true.

Another interesting problem, discussed by minds greater than ours over the centuries. More interesting are these 2 questions.

1. Why God (if existing) allows purposeless (non teleological) evil to exist?
2. Where does the notion of evil arise?

I got a 1st on my essay regarding the 1st in Philosophy at university. Though my main subject was maths. If you like we could argue about the number of angels who'll fit on the head of a pin.

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