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From: kaz@vision.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku)
Subject: Re: Off topic response to an off topic message--> was:Re: Software
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In article <3395FF96.107E@ionaprep.pvt.k12.ny.us>,
�Stephen! <99borns@ionaprep.pvt.k12.ny.us> wrote:
>	I like to think of mathematics as a means of expressing the
>relationships between numbers. The angles of a square, the lengths of

Not broad enough. There exist plenty of abstract mathematical entities with
interesting formal properties that are nevertheless not numbers.

>	One is a totally arbitrary name. It may be called "Throbene" for all it
>matters, it is merely a way of expressing the number. The names for the
>numbers are a human invention, the numbers themselves are not.

You are making a mere philosophical hypothesis here.